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f ANY ages before 
such a being as 
the man of the 
present order 
had ever been 
dreamed of, ev- 
en before his hairy ancestors 
swung in the tree-tops or kept 
watch for enemies from their 

cave homes, the wonderful coal depos- 
its, ore-bearing rocks, fertile valleys and 
rich, black swamp lands of Arkansas 
were in process of making. 

The strange creatures that lived when 
the giant ferns which are now dug up as 
coal, were waving their tree-high fronds 
in the hot, damp air, have long since given 
place to the present- day species, and the 
storms and floods of the glacial period, which 
prepared the face of the earth for the habi- 
tation of man, are remembered only by the 
scars they left on the rocks, and the remains 
of prehistoric animals that are found in the 
caves where they were made prisoners by the deadly 
advance of ice and snow. 

By the record of rocks and bones, Nature has been 
a long time fitting Arkansas for the habitation of man- 
kind, and the riches of her stores of coal and ore, of 
pearls and diamonds, of soil and sunshine, challenges 
the attention of the world. 

Th^ Yesterday of Arkansas has been a long and 
busy 0me of preparation; her Today is full of prom- 
ise,.and the fullness of her Tomorrow is assured. 

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her capital city, address 

Board of Commerce 

LITTLE rock, ARK. 



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YESTERDAY 




CENTURIES before the white man came to drive 
him from the forests and streams of his ances- 
tors, the red man hunted in the virgin woods along 
the banks of the smoothly flowing Arkansas River, 
and fished from bark canoes up and down its course. 
The historic Old State House shown above, erected 
before the "Territory of Arkansas" was admitted to 
statehood, stands where was once the quiet burying 
spot of the red man. The State of Arkansas, which 
joined the sisterhood of the Union in 1836, contains 
52,000 square miles of such varying latitude, longi- 
tude and altitude that her consequent climate and 
soil formations make it possible for this state to abso- 
lutely supply her inhabitants with the products of her 
own soil and factories without the aid of outside re- 
sources. The fact that within her bounds such unde- 
veloped stores of wealth are everywhere waiting the 
magic hand of Mother Necessity, who in time makes 
use of all things for her children, holds abundant and 
sure promise of the future of the State of Arkansas. 
If the walls of the Old State House had tongues, 
as well as the ears of story, it could tell great tales 
of political struggles, of stormy conventions, of fervid 
oratory, and of tragedies and romances written in no 
history. 



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NEW STATE CAPITOL 



.^OHE Capitol of the State of Arkansas is one of the 
-1- most beautiful buildings of its kind in the United 
States, and from its eminent location its stately col- 
onnades and gold covered domes make an imposing 
picture. This massive structure of Roman architec- 
ture is constructed of Arkansas granite from Bates- 
ville, together with Bedford granite. The classic 
interior is of white marble. Much progressive legis- 
lation has already been enacted in the new structure, 
and its walls have rung with victorious shouting at the 
passage of some measures which for years had been 
subjects of fierce contention in the Old State House, 
notably the prohibition law. The bill granting suff- 
rage to women was one of the progressive measures 
passed at the 1916 General Assembly. Governor 
Charles Hillman Brough, present Chief Executive of 
Arkansas, whose miniature is shown below, was elect- 
ed on the most progressive platform ever adopted by 
the Democratic party of Arkansas. Governor Brough, 
formerly of the University of Arkansas, is widely rec- 
ognized as a scholar as well as a man of public affairs, 
and he is in nation-wide demand as a speaker on 
moral, educational and sociological subjects. 




YESTERDAY 




EAST from the Valley of the Mississippi and north 
from its delta, the land formation of today is 
what was once an extensive inland sea or ocean arm. 
The first rock formation discovered by early day river 
navigators was on the Arkansas River where the 
capital city of Arkansas now stands. In the picture 
above the small rock at the foot of one of the four 
great bridges that span the river here, was known by 
its French name. Petit Roche, so called to distinguish 
it from Grand Rochelle, or Big Rock, now occupied 
by Fort Roots. 

The city of Little Rock was chartered in 1835. Her 
first mayor was an all-around valuable public official, 
combining the mayorality duties with those of justice 
of the peace, school teacher, bookkeeper, clerk in the 
postoffice, sign painter, glazier and general tinker. 
Little Rock's public and private buildings were few 
and mostly built of logs at this time, and her total 
population was counted as a few hundred. So this 
first mayor had no worries over public utility fran- 
chises, trafiic ordinances or sewerage and lighting 
problems. His diplomatic and civil powers were of- 
ten taxed, however, to preserve peace in his com- 
munity, owing to the summary way early-day citizens 
had of settling their own differences with pistols and 
knives. 



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and TODAY 




IN all the long succession of honorable gentlemen 
who have served as chief executive of Arkansas' 
capital city, there was never more rejoicing at the out- 
come of an election than when Charles E. Taylor 
was elected to this office by a big majority vote of his 
fellow citizens. 

The fight had been a spirited one between the 
moral forces and the social reactionaries. Fortun- 
ately for the future of the city, the moral forces had 
selected a man not only holding high moral ideals 
but possessing in a marked degree fine business and 
executive ability. 

The Taylor administration has not been a dis- 
appointment. Its moral policy, its fairness to labor, 
its era of construction and its financial management 
through a period that gready taxed the ablest business 
judgement, are to its credit. Among its many im- 
provements are miles of paved streets and the light- 
ing of entire districts; the establishment of a motor- 
ized fire department and consequent lowering of 
insurance rates; the parks and play-ground movement 
and the addition of the ninth ward to the city. 

Mayor Charles E. Taylor will go out of office as 
he went in, with the confidence and love of friends 
to numerous to count. 




YESTERDAY 




AN OLD COUNTY EDIFICE 



'"P^HE famous "Bridge of Sighs," over which the 
J- myriad unfortunates pass who travel from "The 
Tombs" in New York City, to their fate, is not 
without its prototype as is seen by a glance at the 
drawing produced above. This humble edifice was, 
as late as 1878, the Garland County jail. Up its steps 
and across its front porch passed the victims of the 
law of that day. At the door a pause was made. 
The ladder seen at the right was deftly lowered by 
the sheriflf into the building through the door. The 
culprit was bidden to descend. The ladder was drawn 
up and the door closed. Food was passed to the 
one or many prisoners through the small opening in 
the front wall and here the friends of the incarcerated 
might pour out their voices of sympathy. The plen- 
titude of original fire-water and Bowie knives of these 
days made the sheriff's life one of activity, and stand- 
ing room only was often the condition in this early 
day jail. 



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and TODAY 




ONE of the finest county buildings in the South 
is the Pulaski County Court House, built by 
former County Judge Joe Asher. Among the many 
offices in this handsome building are those of County 
Judge Lee Miles, who is building the great new 
Broadway bridge; County Clerk Dan Quinn and 
Chancery Clerk W. S. Boone, two popular officials; 
Mrs. Jennie Erickson, the efficient probation officer; 
Circuit Clerk Jack Maloney and Sheriff William G. 
Hutton. 

Circuit Clerk Maloney, before the voters of his 
county gave him political preferment, was an "Ark- 
ansas Traveler" and one of the best boosters in this 
popular organization of traveling men. Mr. Maloney 
yet finds time to give valuable assistance to many 
forward movements in the community. 

Like Billy Sunday, Billy Hutton was formerly a 
baseball artist and though he has held no evangelistic 
services since leaving the diamond, as a prominent 
official he has openly declared his position on such 
moral questions as directly concern good govern- 
ment. As a business man he has come into promi- 
nence by the transformation he has made in "Beauti- 
ful Belmont" the new hotel at Camp Pike. Mr. 
Hutton and Mr. Maloney are shown to the left and 
right below. 




YESTERDAY 




APPROACHING Little Rock on any of the 
bridges that connect North Little Rock with the 
larger city on the south side, the river front presents 
a scene of industrial activity vastly different from that 
of early days. Today the towering walls of office 
buildings and hotels, of church spires and factory 
smoke stacks, write the story of progress against the 
sky line with their blended curves and edges, while 
the unceasing stream of foot passengers, automobiles 
and passenger and freight traffic on the different 
bridges tells the vital energy of modern industrial life. 
Writing of the view presented by Little Rock in 
1832, the author of "Early Days in Arkansas" says, 
"But little of the capital could be seen from the north 
side on account of the high and irregular bluffs on 
the south side which time and the march of improve- 
ments have greatly lowered and depressed. Near 
First (now Commerce Street) there was a small group 
of log houses occupied as dwellings. On the east 
side of First Street near the river stood two log ware- 
houses used for storing freight brought by steamboats 
to this port." The occasional visit of a strange vehicle 
that might have come in over the old road from 
Memphis always attracted the attention of early settlers 
as seen in the illustration. 



and TODAY 




THE Masonic Temple, home of the Exchange 
National Bank, was the first pretentious office 
building erected in Little Rock. Among its offices is 
that of Fay Hempstead, poet laureate of world Free- 
masonry. Established in 1882 with a capital of $200,- 
000, the Exchange National Bank has, by sound and 
conservative management, grown until it has deposits 
of $2,500,000, with surplus and earned profits of 
$265,000. Its president is C. A. Pratt; vice-presi- 
dents, E. G. Thompson and B. P. Kidd; the cashier 
is R. H.Thompson; his assistants are W. B. Kennedy 
and E. M. Harrington. Mr. Pratt, shown in the 
miniature below, has been in the banking business in 
Litde Rock twenty-five years, during which time he 
has been prominently idendfied with many of the 
state's progressive interests. 




YESTERDAY 




THE above picture is perhaps the only one in ex- 
istence of the two-story brick building shown in 
the left rear. It is said to have stood in ante-bellum 
days, on what is now Main Street, between Mark- 
ham and the river. The small frame building to the 
left was a law office and its close proximity to the big 
house was not by chance, for in those convivial days 
when whiskey was cheap and knives and guns were 
handy, there were many fights, and the fine old brick 
house got a bad reputation. 

The stump in the street shows that as yet no pav- 
ing district had been formed, and the ox-wagon ante- 
dates the lively auto trucks that now rush about this 
same corner, by sixty years. There were a few fine 
carriages in those days, however, and it is told in an 
unpublished story by a friend of James S. Conway, 
first governor of the State of Arkansas, that he bought, 
in New York, a "family carriage" which cost $2,000 
by itself, but, with its black footmen and drivers, it 
represented an outlay of $6,000 in gold. The equip- 
ages of those days, with the rough roads over which 
they traveled, are things of the fading past, and the 
hurrying throng, whose feet press the pavements 
stretching over the old land-marks, have little time to 
think of the past, from which they and their present- 
day surroundings have come. 



and TODAY 




ONE of the handsomest monuments to modern 
engineering sl^ill and the progressive spirit of 
the New South in Little Rock, is the Boyle Building, 
whose glistening white walls lift themselves against 
the sky line, on the corner of Main Street and Capitol 
Avenue. Admiration for this beautiful building is 
increased by the "Old Glory" which shakes its folds 
over its highest point. At night a spot-light on the 
"Stars and Stripes" keeps it in clear sight as it waves 
against the dark sky. 




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YESTERDAY 



n. S. M AH* I*I¥E 
From I^ittle Rock to Wort Sxiitti. 



EAVES every Monrlay Weciixesdaif -AVid Friday 
JL^ at 8 o'cjock. A. m; 

Passengers wilf g(> throngh ^by this line in comfort 
tl)Ie pot^t-Goaches, with excellent btock and carefu: 
Jrivei-s, iu about JJ//7//0U)- ftowrs. 

j^-For further iuformatioa, apply at the omce a1 
he AnthTTiy Hoitse, to • A. F. HKINK, Agent. 

i'LtUf Borl-. Feb. 2.5, i5G0. 34— tf. 

Jflemphis anci Ijittle Mocfc 
Tri-Weefcly U. & Mail Line. 



COMPOSED OF THE F0LL0WI2iC 

ITew and Elegant Passenger Packets: 

SOUTH BEND, R. L. Haikes, Master. 
RED WING.sT. W. Smith, 
LADY WALTON, W. B. Novtland, Mastet. 
8. H. TUCKER, Reese Pritohajid, " 

THE above named Boats have now entered) 
the Little Rock and Memphis U. S, yixxj^ 
TuADE Peemanently. One of them will leave! 
Little Ro.ck every Sunday, Wednesday, audi 
Friday, At 10 P. M 



Little Rock & HOt Springs 

Tbroagk iu Dayligbt 

Four-Horse Post Coacfies 

Going to the HOT SPRINGS will find oo Uiis 
Line the best of 

COX CORD COACHES. FINE HORSES, ANB 
CAREFUL AND SOBER 

DRIVERS. 

Little Boch mid Wash- 
iniftmt. 

Via ROOKPORT t ARKA1>KLPHIA. 
Through in ThJfti-.-%ix Hours. 

Office at the Anthony House, litlle.Kock^ 



ADVERTISING FIRST CLASS PASSENGER TRANSPOR- 
TATION HALF A CENTURY AGO IN ARKANSAS 



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THE coming of railroads to Arkansas began a 
wonderful era of development. How well the 
Missouri Pacific servesArkansas can belargely demon- 
strated by the fact that in this state, with an extreme 
width and length of 275 miles and 240 miles respec- 
tively, this company has a total mileage within a frac- 
tion of 2,400 miles, or almost ten times the extreme 
length of the state. 

As a large employer of men, the Missouri Pacific 
means considerable to Arkansas. At present, this 
company employs about 9,000 men in this state. 
Figuring an average of three to a family, this would 
mean 27,000 persons either working for or dependent 
upon this company for a living, or an average of one 
in every sixty of the state's population. 

For wages this company pays out in Arkansas, more 
than half a million dollars every month. This great 
army of Missouri Pacific employes in the state spends 
at least $135,000.00 for shoes in a year, more than 
$2,500,000.00 for food and at least $1,000,000.00 for 
clothes, besides their purchases of other articles en- 
tering into their living. 

In taxes alone the Missouri Pacific pays nearly one 
million dollars annually in Arkansas, and another 
huge sum for ties, lumber and coal. 




MISSOURh 
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YESTERDAY 




THE first artist who ever painted an original pic- 
ture of any note in Arkansas was Edward Wasli- 
burn, son of Rev. Cephas Washburn, who came to 
the Territory of Arl^ansas over a hundred years ago 
as a missionary to the Indians. The son Edward 
from earliest childhood showed great talent drawing 
in the sand and on every smooth surface he could 
find. He was yet young when he painted the "Ark- 
ansas Traveler," from which original painting the 
above drawing was made. The young artist painted 
several handsome portraits now in possession of 
descendants of the family and a valuable canvas on 
his easel was left unfinished by his untimely death. 
The "Arkansas Traveler" was not considered by the 
painter as a work of art but was hurriedly made from 
a local scene suggested by the tune played for a 
traveler. This old tune, which is today played by 
bands everywhere, never fails to set the most pious 
feet tapping or the most sanctimonious lips smiling 
pleasantly, while its effect on a body of men or 
women is to make them forget for the time that there 
is such a thing in the world as trouble as they enter 
into the spirit of the swinging, rollicking, humorous 
harmony of an undying tune. 



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and TODAY 




A NATION is no greater than the total of its 
units, and each unit is the home. In its use and 
effect upon mankind, music is, next to food and 
shelter, the greatest necessity and of all things the 
greatest blessing to man. 

Recognition of this fact in Arkansas is evidenced 
by the successful piano and musical concerns in Ark- 
ansas, chiefest of whom is the Hollenberg Music Co., 
the oldest, largest and best in Arkansas, and as a 
matter of fact equally so, with only a few exceptions, 
throughout the United States. 

The business was established in 1853 by H. G. 
Hollenberg and became well known as the Great 
Southwestern Music House, Memphis, Tennessee and 
Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1887 the company was in- 
corporated, and in 1891 F. B. T. Hollenberg, son 
of the founder, was made president, under whose 
management the company has merited and received 
the best patronage. 

A portion of the main entrance to the beautiful 
new home of the company at 415 Main Street is 
shown above. The miniature below is that of H. G. 
Hollenberg, the founder. 




YESTERDAY 




^OHIS very unusual picture was made in 1908 at the 
-I- homecoming of a number of pioneers who attend- 
ed school together during the years of 1848 to 1858. 
The old log building known as Hawthorn School, is 
near Farmington, Arkansas. 

Schools of this kind were early day forms of the 
present system of non-sectarian free school education, 
a system not yet perfect but embodying the under- 
lying principles upon which democratic civilization 
must be built. The great difference in social condi- 
tions between countries having free school education 
and those having none, can be seen at a glance by a 
comparison of North and South America. Both of 
these countries were taken by the white man at about 
the same time. The founders of the United States 
believed free education necessary to the best interests 
of the new social order that was to be. Today the 
United States stands in the forefront of the civilized 
nations of the world, while South America, rich be- 
yond computation in natural resources, yet remains, 
for the greater part, a rich harvest field for such forces 
as prey on ignorance and superstition. Her founders 
did not believe in education. 

To pioneers like those pictured above, the present 
age owes a. debt it can never repay. 



and TODAY 




LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOL 




NORTH LITTLE ROCK HIGH SCHOOL 



A COMPARISON of the two buildings above and 
their splendid equipment with the cabin school 
pictured on the opposite page tells its own story of 
the development of the public school system of 
Arkansas. 

Educational institutions in the State of Arkansas, 
other than the public schools, are the University of 
Arkansas, State Normal, Branch Normal, four Agri- 
cultural Colleges and many religious and denomina- 
tional colleges and schools, both Protestant and Cath- 
olic, among the latter being the handsome new Little 
Rock College. Arkansas has a uniform text book and 
compulsory education law and is every year spending 
more money for the education of her increasing pop- 
ulation of school children. 



YESTERDAY 



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Embroideries ! Embroideries I 

IT INEN Cambric Edgings and Inserting*, Swisn 
JLj and Jaconet BandM, Collars and SleevQp, single 
and in setts, Infants' Waist Uusqiies and Robos, Linen, 
Cambric Handkerchiefs, also, a few splendid embroi- 
dered skirts, Linen cambric. Linen Lawn, Ihifc Lace 
Colhirs and sleeves, and various other articles oT this 
klad.jiist recdved at P. HOTZE & CO.'S, 

4pril 14, 18G0. Main .<treel, umkr the Theatre. 



OEO. C. iWATKlNS, p. M BOSB. 

WATKINS & ROSE, 

vV r t o V n © y s n. t^ Ha n av 

LITTLE inCK, A,RK._ 

OfTico, a 5I;ukliani stiect.ncar the State Ilonse, 
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OSQUITO BARS— That ,wiU protect Ba- 
^ bic8, riiiliircn, Girls atul Boys, Lads and 
gses, Men and Women, Ladic and Ocntleraen 
om the attacks of ilio Arkaqsaw moEquilos. j 
If vou wish a good dnc crall oil 

.V-rv r>, 18C0. BEDBE & rARISn. I 



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Office— East Side of East Mam Street, 
lET^EEN MULBEIIHV AND WALls'UT 
iUreet 8, Little Rock, Arkatogas, 
Mail 28. 185». ' 3— if. 



To W/itttlcrs, 



>Ei:i3K A PAIUSH have a large assortment pf 
> Knive.--. SepL 22, I860. 



CliOCKS! CLOCKS! 

SMALL LOT OF CHOICE EIGWf DAY 

Weight Clocks for sale low only'foi'Cash, 
at ALBERT COHEN'S 

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DEALERS IN 

Groceries f Provision s, 

CORNER OF MARKIIAM AND ROCK STS., 
lITTLi: ROCK, ARKS. 

ASUPI'LY OF VENISON, TUR-REYS, 
DUCKS, and Market Produce, always on. 
hand. 2'!-^ December 8, 18u9. 



All Ye thatDxink! 

»EEBE A PARISU have the Rifle Whiskey, 
» Sept. 22, Is.jO. 



ADS FROM OLD COPIES OF THE 
ARKANSAS GAZETTE 



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THER events have had a more or less marked 
fluence on Arkansas men and affairs * * * 
but towering above all these in both absolute and rel- 
ative importance," says the historian, Shinn, "must 
be rated the first issue of the Arkansas Gazette, the in- 
itial beacon to a greater intelligence, the first headlight 
of a greater progress and the commanding index to 
the march of improvement and power." 

On October 30, 1819, William E. Woodruff landed 
at Arkansas Post with his modest, old time printing 
press, and twenty days later issued the first copy of 
the Arkansas Gazette, the second paper to be publish- 
ed west of the Mississippi River, and the oldest which 
has had a continuous existence to the present time. 

When the seat of government was changed from 
Arkansas Post to Little Rock in 1821, the Arkansas 
Gazette changed its place of publication to Litde 
Rock, where it has since been issued. 

The handsome building shown above is the home 
of the Gazette today. In this building is a giant press 
on one corner of which in letters of gold is the name 
"Wm. E. Woodruff," and here Arkansas' oldest and 
greatest newspaper is published. Mr. J. N. Heiskell 
(miniature below) , is its present able editor, Mr. Fred 
Heiskell, managing editor and Mr. Fred Allsopp, 
business manager. 




YESTERDAY 




'^pHE above picture shows the west side of Second 
J- and Main Streets in 1863. The site of the building 
to the left, at that time occupied by the firm of Field 
and Dolley, is familiar today as the People's Bank 
corner. To the right, in the illustration, are seen the 
stores of Ottenheimer and B. Gans. Two or three 
more frame buildings reached to the corner now oc- 
cupied by the German National Bank. 

In the block between Second and Third Streets 
stood the old Robbins Opera House. Near this was 
the general store of Mr. Peter Hotze. On another 
page in this book an advertisement of P. Hotze & Co. 
at this time, may be seen. A neighbor store was 
owned by A. O. Hadley, afterward govenor of Ark- 
ansas, and Mr. Peter Hanger. In the same block was 
the shoe shop of George Metzgar, a low board house 
with a big boot hanging out from the roof over the 
door. The town branch, covered with plank, ran 
down the west side of Main Street, crossing east on 
Second. The street was muddy and dusty by turns. 
There were no street lights and just beyond the village 
limits the native woods still stood. 



and TODAY 




THE Southern Trust Building, shown in the above 
picture, was the tirst strictly modern office build- 
ing to be erected in Arkansas, and stands as a monu- 
ment to the progressive spirit and business enterprise 
of the late Judge William Kavanaugh. 

From the day it opened its doors to the public the 
Southern Trust Company has been a popular bank- 
ing institution and its growth has kept pace with that 
of Little Rock's wonderful business prosperity. 

The success of a banking institution is told largely 
by the personality of its officials and the efficiency of 
their trained services. The Southern Trust Company 
is fortunate in having the following able officers: 
President, J. R. Vinson; Vice-Presidents, B. C. Powell 
and C. G. Price; Secretary, J. C. Conway; Assistant 
Secretary, T. G. Embree; Trust Officer, J. H. Stanley. 
The genial and popular L. C. Holman has charge of 
the real estate department of the institution. 

The sketch below shows the modern office building 
as pictured above, in course of construction. 




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YESTERDAY 




IT was on the bank of a small stream in what is now 
Pope County, that Rev. Cephas Washburn, a hun- 
dred years ago, gave his first religious teaching to the 
Cherokee Indians. Even before the time of Wash- 
burn, Jesuit priests had visited Arkansas as mission- 
aries. But the uncharted wilderness, infested with 
Indians and wild beasts, was hard soil in which to sow 
the seed of religious education, and the pioneer mis- 
sionaries suffered many privations and dangers. 

With passing time, however, the good seed sown 
sprung up and has flowered into religious institutions 
of every kind, both Roman Catholic and Protestant. 
Among Protestant denominations strong numerically 
and financially are the Methodists and Baptists, which 
support many schools and colleges. Presbyterians, 
Christians, and Christian Scientists also have large 
followings, and many less strong faiths have their ad- 
herents. The Roman Catholic church has beautiful 
places of worship throughout the state, the handsom- 
est being St. Andrew's Cathedral at Little Rock. The 
educational institutions of this church include Subiaco 
and Little Rock College for boys, many convents for 
girls, and its parochial school system. 



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and TODAY 



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LITTLE ROCK PUBLIC LIBRARY 



BETWEEN the portals that lead to knowledge 
lies the pathway of individual developement and 
the only road to an enduring democracy. Ideas, 
more than bullets, have always determined man's fit- 
ness to be master of his own fate, and in the arena 
where mind shall finally determine might, inherited 
ideas prove as ineffectual weapons as would war clubs 
inherited from men of the old stone age prove in- 
effective in modern warfare. 

The public library as a benefactor of society has no 
superior. The picture above shows the entrance to 
the Little Rock Public Library, of which Miss 
Dorothy D. Lyon, assisted by an able staff, is librar- 
ian. The ten thousand volume library of the late 
Judge U. M. Rose, and the library of the late Dr. 
W. E. Green, are valuable additions to the main li- 
brary. In the Green Room the Drama League and 
other literary and art societies hold meetings. 

The miniature below is that of Mrs. Josie Frazee 
Cappleman, president of the Authors and Composers 
Society of Arkansas. 




YESTERDAY 




WHEEL OF CHANCE 



IN a Little Rock daily paper bearing a date of 1874, 
the illustration presented above appeared in a 
double column announcement of the sixty-third 
monthly drawing of a lottery at that time operating 
in Arkansas and many other states. A long list of 
cash prizes, ranging from $2,000 down to $8, was a 
part of the advertisement. The price announced for 
whole tickets was $2. Halves were $1, and quarters 
50c. A bargain sale of five and a half tickets was 
announced for $10. 

The wheel of chance was patronized by all classes. 
But the burden of its profit production was on the 
poorer classes, many a workingman purchasing tickets 
with the hope that he might have the good fortune 
to get something for his family more than his wage 
allowed. Women oftentimes saved small amounts 
with which to purchase tickets, meantime planning 
what they would purchase with their prize money. 
The lottery business flourished until it was declared 
unlawful by federal and state governments. 



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NEW A. O. U. W. BUILDING 



^^TT 7E Keep Arkansas Money in Arkansas" is the 
V V widely advertised statement of that great fra- 
ternal organization, the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. That this is true is evidenced by the 
chaste and stately building shown in the drawing 
above, which is the new home of the A. O. U. W. 
Money kept at home is also used to buy homes and 
farms for its members, meantime providing certain 
protection for them against such loss by death as 
money can insure. 

Mr. John R. Frazer and Mr. H. L. Cross (left and 
right miniature) are Grand Master Workman and 
Grand Recorder of the A. O. U. W. It is to the 
widely extended faith in the unquestioned integrity 
of these two men, as well as their organizing and 
directing ability, the great success of this organization 
in Arkansas is due. 




YESTERDAY 




ONE can never tell by the surface appearance of 
land in Arkansas what its real value is. One of 
the most unpromising bits of land in the state belong- 
ed a few years ago to a farmer named Huddleston 
who lived near Murfreesboro, in Pike County. In 
the center of his 240-acre tract was a space on which 
nothing would grow. One day Huddleston found 
two bits of shining crystal which he took home. His 
wife made the curious suggestion that they might be 
diamonds. They were sent to Chas. S. Stifft at Little 
Rock, who in turn sent them to a diamond expert 
in New York. Here they were found to be diamonds 
of great purity, resembling Vaal River (Africa) dia- 
monds. After an examination of the land was made 
$36,000 was paid to Huddleston for it. Drilling tests 
showed that the long hoped for American diamond 
mine had been discovered, the crater or pipe being 
the second largest in existence, about 65 acres. Up to 
date 2,000 diamonds have been taken from the mines. 
A recent find is a canary colored perfect octohedron 
in shape, weighing over seventeen carats. It is worth 
$4,000. Prospects are good at present for opening the 
mines on a large scale. Several hundred stones were 
taken from the pit pictured above. 



and TODAY 




TN olden times the success of the man who had 
1 "too many irons in the fire" was problematical, 
but the h\g business man of today is a man whose in- 
terests are many and varied. 

Among the leaders of business life in Arkansas is 
Charles S. Stifft. A partial list of his activities will 
show the demands made on the successful man of 
today. Mr. Stifft is president of the Stifft Realty Co., 
of Stifft Jewelry Co., and of two leading building and 
loan companies. He is vice-president of the Ark- 
ansas Diamond Mining Co.; treasurer of the Pulaski 
County Fair Association and director of the Mercan- 
tile Trust Co. Stifft's Addition on Pulaski Heights 
was developed by him; he also built the first apart- 
ment house in Little Rock and has completed plans 
for a beautiful residential suburb through which Rock 
Creek flows and where he will donate 75 acres for a 
park. He is a Scottish Rite Mason; a Mystic Shriner, 
a charter member of the B. P. O. E. No, 29, treas- 
urer of the K. of P. Castle Hall, is an honored mem- 
ber of the American Academy of Political and Social 
Science, was president of the Board of Trade for four 
terms and is an able single tax advocate. 




YESTERDAY 




FOR hundreds of years before Arkansas was per- 
manently settled there were vague stories of the 
wealth of gold to be found within her borders, and 
there are legendary records of the visit of De Soto 
to the western wilds, of which Arkansas was then a 
part, in a vain search for the yellow prize. At a much 
later date silver was believed to have been discovered 
in great quantities and the old smelter shown above 
was built at Morning Star Mines in 1857, to handle 
the rough ore. This silver proved to be zinc, of 
which Arkansas has vast deposits in Marion, Boone, 
Newton, Searcy, Baxter, Lawrence and Sevier Coun- 
ties. In addition to rich deposits of zinc, the hills 
and mountains of Arkansas contain one hundred and 
forty other kinds of minerals. 



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'^r^HE modern money making institution does not 
J- offer the exciting "get rich quick" hope of the old 
scheme, but in an extravagant age puts emphasis on 
the necessity of saving. 

One of the leading institutions in Little Rock special- 
izing in small saving accounts, is the Peoples Savings 
Bank, of which Mr. Warren E. Lenon is president; 
B. Bodemann, vice-president; A. J. Mercer, cashier; 
F. W. Niemeyer, assistant cashier; De E. Bradshaw, 
director; J. H. Hamiter, director. Mr. Lenon's abil- 
ity to successfully conduct a big business was proven 
by the record he made while mayor of Little Rock. 
His was the administration of Little Rock's renais- 
sance, the new era in building which gave Little Rock 
its handsome City Hall, new Union Station, Public 
Library, Hotel Marion and other improvements. 

The sum total of the Christmas savings accounts 
of the Peoples Savings Bank has grown into a fortune, 
and the bank presents a busy scene as the holiday 
checks are paid out. 

By courtesy of Mr. Lenon, the above picture of the 
wonderful bridge, which is said to be the longest pon- 
toon bridge in the world, is presented. The bridge 
spans the Arkansas River at Dardanelle. The manner 
of construction and operating this bridge 26 years is 
a story of much interest. 




YESTERDAY 




EVER since God contrived clothing of fig leaves 
with which to cover the naked and hairless bodies 
of the human animal, "necessity has been the mother 
of invention," and no one class of any race has de- 
vised so many means to an end as the pioneer, who, 
single handed and alone, went out to wrest civilization 
from Nature. The above picture was made in a 
remote mountainous region of Arkansas where such 
improvised modes of primitive transportation are yet 
occasionally seen. The brawny country maiden is 
free from the fear of punctured tires, nor does the 
price of gasoline consumed by her vehicle of loco- 
motion cause her any care or worry. 



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n d TODAY 




THE continual development of good roads in Ark- 
ansas makes an ever increasing demand for auto- 
mobiles for both city and country use as surely as the 
increasing use of automobiles creates a demand for 
good roads. 

Little Rock is a city of automobiles, and represen- 
tatives of every class and manner of car and truck here 
vie with each other in arguing one point of superi- 
ority over another. 

One of the best known automobile men in the 
state is Mr. S. R. Thomas (see miniature below), 
president of the S. R. Thomas Auto Company, the 
distributing headquarters for two cars whose names 
are synonymous with one hundred per cent efficiency. 
These two cars are the Hupmobile and the Dodge. 

The wonderful record made by the Hupmobile 
in its trans-continental and round the world journeys, 
when neither ice nor snow nor mud nor water, nor 
high mountains or deep valleys stopped it on its way, 
reads like a wonder-story to those interested in the 
triumph of man's genius over the obstacles set by 
rugged Nature. The Dodge car, about Little Rock, 
seems to multiply over night, and the fabled mother 
crow who swore her little crow was the blackest ever 
hatched had nothing on the owner of a Dodge, for 
with one accord they swear, that tested by honest ser- 
vice rendered, no car is in its class. 




YESTERDAY 




THERE are one hundred different kinds of trees 
in Arkansas, sixty of them possessing commercial 
value. Among these are the famous short leaf pines, 
a dozen kinds of oak, several varieties of elm, 
cypress, red cedar, black walnut, hickory, pecan, 
Cottonwood, sycamore, river birch, gums, maples 
and hackberry. In total lumber production, Ark- 
ansas is surpassed by but three states, Washington, 
Louisiana and Mississippi. In the cut of red gum 
and hickory, Arkansas ranks first. She ranks second 
in her output of cottonwood and ash, while her 
annual output of yellow pine is 1,313,668,000 feet, 
board measure. 



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LUMBERING began in the State of Arkansas on 
a crude scale over a century ago. Systematic 
lumbering in Arkansas is of comparatively recent 
date. The land area of Arkansas is 33,616,000 acres 
of which about 20,000,000 acres are now woodland. 
The total annual drain upon the forests of Arkansas 
is little short of 5,000,000,000 feet. The merchantable 
timber of Arkansas has been estimated at 78,000,000,- 
000 feet, board measure. There are nearly two thous- 
and establishments manufacturing lumber products of 
Arkansas. Sixty per cent of the timber cut in Ark- 
ansas is further finished in planing mills which is still 
further milled and is made into sash, doors, blinds, 
mouldings, etc. The largest saw mill in the world is 
located at Stamps, Arkansas. 

One of the enterprising lumber firms of Little Rock 
is the Cochran-Foster Lumber Co., which was found- 
ed in 1906. Although yet young in years the business 
of this concern has come to be one of the largest of its 
kind in the state, employing ninety men to handle its 
output which is used largely in the construction of 
hotels, colleges and other large buildings. Both the 
young men at its head, S. A. Cochran and W. G. 
Foster are Columbia College men. The miniature 
below is the president, Mr. Cochran. 




YESTERDAY 




THE old Washburn home, shown in the above 
picture, is still standing, near the site of old Nor- 
ristown, of which there remains but one lonely, 
weather-beaten house, on the north bank of the Ark- 
ansas River, across from Dardanelle. 

It was in this house the "Arkansas Traveler" paint- 
ing was made. It is occupied today by coal miners 
and nothing about it whispers of an artistic past, save 
the fine old mantle and the quaint hand trimmed 
posts and spindles of the stairway which leads up to 
what is supposed to have been the artist's room. 

The furniture of the pioneer home was simple, but 
made for hard wear. Beds with straight posts and 
woven rope bottoms were bare enough looking, but, 
piled thick with feather beds and covered with old 
time quilts, guaranteed good sleeping. The fire place 
was both heating stove and range and nothing was 
ever better than the corn cakes fried in the old skillet, 
and the sweet potatoes baked in the ashes. Floor 
covering was for the most part unknown and the 
thousand and one styles in furniture and rugs and 
draperies that the modern home maker longs for, 
were as yet undreamed of. 



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UP-TO-DATE FURNITURE HOUSE 



TT TiTH the passing of the old order, hand made 
W table, split bottom chair and rag carpet rugs 
have given place to art furniture in mahogany, wal- 
nut and oak, and to rugs and draperies of bewilder- 
ing art and beauty. The leading home outfitting 
concern in Little Rock, the Bowser Furniture Com- 
pany, began business in a small way sixteen years 
ago. Because of its policy of fair dealing, the trade of 
this company has grown until today it is doing the larg- 
est retail furniture business in the state. The handsome 
new Bowser home on Main Street has a floor space 
of more than 35,000 square feet, covered with the 
newest designs in up-to-date house-furnishings. 

President Bowser, to whose efficient management 
the business largely owes its success, is shown in the 
miniature. 




YESTERDAY 




NATURE'S CURE-ALL 



BEFORE the ways of civilization had changed the 
Valley of Vapors into the modern city of Hot 
Springs, Arkansas, Indians made pilgrimages to the 
steam clouded springs and thanked the Great Spirit 
for their healing powers. 

When the white man came, cutting roadways 
through the primitive forest for the stage-coaches 
which were to take the sick and afflicted to these 
wonderful springs, they began to be named, these 
names varying in artistic merit from the "Pool of 
Siloam" to the "Old Corn Hole" shown in the pic- 
ture above. This latter spring was indeed Nature's 
cure-all. Internal troubles were cured by drinking 
from the stream which fed the pool. External pains 
and blemishes were cured by one or many applica- 
tions of hot mud while the magical qualities of the 
pool used as a hot foot bath were told far and near. 

The above picture was drawn for Harper's Maga- 
zine and was one of several illustrations used in an 
interesting and valuable article describing the Hot 
Springs of half a century ago. 



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THE modern laboratory has made drug making 
a science. One of the oldest and largest concerns 
of the southwest dealing in drugs and drug sundries, is 
the Lincoln Drug Co., founded eighty-three years 
ago. In 1865 Dr. C. J. Lincoln (see miniature), en- 
tered into the business. At the death of Dr. Lincoln 
ten years ago, his son Charles Knox Lincoln, one of 
the prominent younger business men of Little Rock, 
became president of the business. Mr. J. H. Brown, 
who has been with the firm twenty-seven years and 
has a fine technical knowledge of drugs, as well as a 
fine business training, is vice-president. Mr. L. J. 
Ashby, who also has rendered efficient service to the 
company for years, is secretary. The above picture 
shows portions of the sundry and pharmaceutical 
rooms. 




YESTERDAY 




DURING some past age the forces of Nature 
wrought a wondrous work in what is now 
known as "Arkansas," piling up immense stores of 
valuable materials for building modern cities and 
roadways. On the opposite side of the Arkansas 
River from Little Rock, and a short distance up, is a 
splendid volcanic deposit of the hardest blue and 
black trap stone found anywhere. This great pile is 
called Big Rock. 

Good roads are the best asset of any community; 
they increase trafific; increase real estate values and 
bring wealth to the community. 

Arkansas has many piles, mountain high, of the 
best road building material on earth. Few great 
natural deposits of building material are as near a live 
market and railroad outlet as is Big Rock, and steam- 
shovels and crushing plants cost money. But as 
the demand for good roads grows and the tenfold 
good results from their building is demonstrated, 
ways are devised to build them. Road building is a 
social problem, not a political one. The increasing 
demand for good roads, together with the rapidly in- 
creasing good roads mileage in Arkansas and her 
wealth of building material, will put her well in the 
list of "good-roads states" in the near future. 



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CONCRETE is rapidly taking the place of wood 
in buildings of all kinds, from the small road 
bridge to the modern sky-scraper. One of the largest 
plants in the Southwest producing material for pur- 
poses of construction, is the Big Rock Stone and Con- 
struction Company. This company operates two 
plants, one on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, at Big 
Rock (picture on opposite page), and one at Pulaski 
Station, on the Rock Island Railroad. These plants 
have a daily capacity of 75 carloads of clean, crushed 
stone, screened in size to meet the requirements of 
every kind of work. 

Between the stone in the mountain and the finished 
product on the railroad cars, the most modern 
mechanical devices are used in order to produce a 
perfect commodity, and in sufficient quantity to meet 
a large and constantly increasing demand. 

The president of this big concern, W. W. Dickinson, 
is one of Arkansas' best known business men. Other 
efficient officials are Jno. W. Dickinson, Jr., vice- 
president; Benj. F. Dickinson, secretary and Guy 
Dickinson, sales manager. 

The above picture shows a new Little Rock office 
building in course of construction. 




YESTERDAY 




IT was a far reach of improvement in methods that 
developed the flat stone basin and crude stone 
roIHng pin of the Indians of early Arkansas into the 
early day grinding stone of the primitive mill whose 
motor power was supplied by water falling over the 
old mill wheel. 

These first mill buildings were of much community 
value in early day settlements and pioneers came to 
them from far and near with their bags of corn for the 
grinding of which the dusty miller took his toll in meal. 

There were many such mills in Arkansas and the 
gray haired children of some of the pioneer settlers yet 
tell stories woven into memories of the days of the 
old mill when times were occasioned by the falling 
of some child into the mill dam or the dangerous 
acceleration in the gait of some slowly moving mule 
by the unheralded appearance of an ill bred wildcat 
as he was being ridden to the mill by some honest boy 
with a load of corn. The above picture is of the old 
Cagle Mill in Pope County, one of the last to disap- 
pear before the advancing trend of an age of improv- 
ed machinery. 



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PRESIDENT W. N. Adams (see miniature), of 
tiie Arkadelphia Milling Company, after his grad- 
uation in 1900, from Ouachita College, went on the 
road as a traveling salesman for his father and uncle, 
W. E. and J. M. Adams, who were engaged in the 
milling business in Arkadelphia. 

At the end of two years Mr. Adams was made 
manager of the company, while the capital stock of 
the company was $25,000, with a daily capacity of 100 
barrels of flour. The buildings were small and were on- 
ly frame, and the annual business amounted to $80,000 
a year, with shipments made only in Arkansas. 

The capacity of the plant has been increased prac- 
tically every year, until now the plant is a five-story, 
re-inforced, fireproof, concrete structure with an ele- 
vator capacity of 400,000 bushels, including thirteen 
tanks. The capacity of the mill is 1,000 barrels of 
flour and meal daily. All the machinery is electric- 
ally driven, having two complete power plants. The 
present year's business was $4,000,000 and flour was 
sent to twenty-eight states and seven foreign countries. 

When war was declared Mr. Adams began a wheat 
growing campaign with the result that the wheat crop 
has grown from $700,000 worth in 1914 to over 
$7,000,000 worth in 1917. 

Under Mr. Adams' direction it is expected the 
Arkansas wheat crop will be doubled the coming year. 




YESTERDAY 




FIFTY or a hundred thousand years before the red 
man chased buffalo over the plains of Arkansas 
and shot deer in its forests, the land was inhabited by 
such strange creatures as lived in those prehistoric ages. 
This has been fully proven by the discovery in Ark- 
ansas of the wonderful Conrad Fissure, in which were 
found the teeth of the sabre-toothed tiger, bones of 
the prehistoric horse and cave bear. The animals of 
that period have long since disappeared, as have also 
those like the splendid specimen shown in the cut, 
who lived in an age after them. Even the deer of 
our present day is rapidly passing, and like these 
others will soon become extinct unless the state's game 
laws are made effective. 



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ARKANSAS has a soil and climate that makes 
possible a green pasture for stock the greater 
portion of the year. Because of the abundance of 
such natural grasses as clovers, blue stem and Ber- 
muda, together with cultivated alfalfa, lespedeza and 
cowpeas; the abundance of water, and the open win- 
ters, Arkansas is coming to the front as a stock grow- 
ing state and the day of the razorback hog, scrub cow 
and jack-rabbit is rapidiy passing. 

One of the pioneer and successful growers of fine 
stock in Arkansas, is Mr. J. R. Alexander (see mini- 
ature), whose 30,000-acre plantation is near Little 
Rock. The picture to the left above shows a one- 
year-old colt; the fine specimen on the upper left 
hand is eighteen months old, while the prize-winning 
hog shown is two years old. 

Cattle on the Alexander plantation forage the year 
around, finding, in addition to the grasses, rich food 
in the canebrake bordering the woodland. 

A visit to this country home will prove well worth 
while to one interested in cattle growing, while to 
any visitor the charming hospitality of its host and 
hostess proves a pleasure not to be forgotten. 




YESTERDAY 




THE above design shows Old Nick himself in hot 
pursuit of a citizen of Kansas during one of the 
periodical seasons of early days when grasshoppers 
came in great clouds, and setding on the face of the 
earth, devoured every green blade. The advertise- 
ment which announces by word of mouth that the 
victim of the grasshopper has at last turned his face 
toward that better country, where such voracious 
pests neither break through nor steal, appeared years 
ago in a long since forgotten newspaper published 
in Little Rock. It was before the days of the present 
real estate bureaus, even before the railroads did their 
extensive advertising. The man who made 57 vari- 
eties, had nothing on God, who, when he made 
Arkansas, made lands and soils of variety and extent 
sufficient to produce 57 varieties of all sorts of grain, 
fruits or vegetables needed to supply mankind. The 
advertising which was to acquaint the world with the 
resources of Arkansas, began with the above series of 
advertisements which were not without striking value. 



and TODAY 



THE LITTLE ROCK 






BOARD OF COMMERCE 



THE present age is distinctly an age of efficiency, 
and that organization or individual wiiich does 
not know the fine art of conserving its forces and ap- 
plying them specifically had as well step down and 
out before being shoved to the wall. 

In organization well directed lies the secret of suc- 
cess. The most efficient organization in Arkansas 
for big work, and an organization second to none in 
any state when measured by results obtained, is the 
Board of Commerce. This powerful organization 
came into existence when the Board of Trade, Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Merchant's Association, Young 
Men's Bureau, Real Estate Bureau, Profitable Farm- 
ing Bureau, Clearing House, State Fair Committee, 
River Transportation Bureau, Dairying Bureau and 
Industrial Development Committee, pooled their 
individual interests for a common good to be obtain- 
ed through a definite force. 

The president of the Board of Commerce is W. B. 
Smith, of one of the best law firms of the southwest. 
The vice-presidents, every one a business man of high 
standing and trained ability, are W. A. Hicks, W. L. 
Hemingway, C. G. Price, Leo Pfeifer, E. J. Bodman, 
R. W. Newell, R. D. Fenton, Jr. and A. J. Kahn. 
The treasurer is H. L. Remmel, president of the 
Bankers Trust Co., and the throughly efficient and 
keenly alive secretary is George Firmin. 

The miniatures to the left and right below are 
President Smith and Secretary Firmin. 




YESTERDAY 




IT is said that many years before the founding of 
the present city of Fort Smith, French traders 
located at the Post of Arkansas, accompanied by a 
Jesuit priest, on their way up the Arkansas River, on 
rounding the bluff near where the Poteau and Ark- 
ansas rivers meet, cried "La Belle Point" so beauti- 
ful was the growth of trees and vines, of ferns and 
moss and flowers that grew over it. 

When the site was selected in 1817 to be used as a 
fort, the place was yet called "Belle Point." This name 
gave place however to that of Fort Smith, so named 
for General Smith, one of the brave fighting men of 
a hundred years ago. 

In a very interesting brief history of this old fort, 
Mrs, G. H. Lyman says, "The first fort was located 
on land belonging to the Choctaw nation and was in 
the form of a stockade formed of the square timbers 
cut from the stately trees that were murdered in all 
their primeval beauty for a useless purpose, as no 
savages ever attacked the garrison." The above illus- 
tration shows the manner of constructing a fort of that 
time with its heavy hewn block corner houses and 
ten foot palisade of stout pickets. 



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FORT ROOTS 



IN 1821 the seat of government in Arkansas was 
removed from Arkansas Post to Little Rock, and 
the old post was established which became known as 
the "Arsenal," and was garrisoned by United States 
troops until the Government decided a larger garrison 
was necessary. 

In 1892 Congress passed an act donating to the 
City of Little Rock, for a public park forever, the 
old arsenal grounds, provided the city conveyed to 
the United States a tract of 1,000 acres suitable for a 
military post, within ten miles of Little Rock. 

Col. Logan H. Roots, one of Arkansas' leading 
citizens at that time, made several trips to Washing- 
ton and interested President Harrison in the matter, 
who sent General Miles and staff to Little Rock to 
select the site. 

What is now Fort Roots and one of the most com- 
manding tracts anywhere in the country, was selected. 

Col. Roots was also largely instrumental in bringing 
about the transformation that made the old arsenal 
into the beautiful City Park of today. 

There is a law that no fort can be named for any- 
one living. After the death of Col. Roots (miniature 
below), his friend, Secretary Alger, named the post 
in his honor, and to few citizens is it given to have 
so splendid and enduring a monument. 

After the United States entered the present World 
War, one of the National Officer's Training Schools 
was established at Fort Roots. From it many young 
officers have been called abroad, and "somewhere 
in France" are fighting for the "Stars and Stripes." 




YESTERDAY 




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A PORTION OF THE SITE OF CAMP PIKI 




''P^HE greatest accomplishment in the history of the Little 
J- Rock Board of Commerce was the securing of Camp 
Pike, the great army cantonment, in 1917. For this pur- 
pose three thousand acres of land were donated to the 
government in fee simple; $50,000 appropriated for mos- 
quito and malaria eradication, and $175,000 for road im- 
provement. 

The cantonment contains 2,000 buildings. It has 30 miles 
of paved streets; 25 miles of water mains; 23 miles of sewers 
and many miles of steam-heat pipes. 2,000 cars of material, 
40,000,000 feet of lumber, costing in excess of $7,000,000, 
was used. The work employed an average of 9,000 laborers 
per day, with a pay-roll exceeding $300,000 per week. 
Major John R. Fordyce, U. S. R. Engineers (see left 
miniature), was in charge of construction. Jas. Stewart 
and Co., of New York and St. Louis were the contractors. 

The cantonment has its own fire department with latest 




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and TODAY 




LY 5, 1917, WHEN CONSTRUCTION BEGAN 



motor truck equipment. It has a post office with thirty 
clerks. It has its own jitney service, connecting with all 
city transportation lines. It has several enormous theatres, 
and many Y. M. C. A., K. of C, and Y. M. H. A. club 
rooms. It will house 40,000 soldiers, and the remount 
station takes care of 10,000 horses and mules. Its base 
hospital covers 20 acres, and 10,000 acres of ground ad- 
joining has been given free to the government for ma- 
neuver purposes. 

There are over 1,500 commissioned officers at Camp 
Pike, including one major-general and four brigadier-ge 
erals, Major-General Samuel D. Sturgis (see right minia- 
ture), in command. 

Camp Pike, in connection with Fort Logan H. Roots, 
a permanent army post, and Camp Eberts, aviation school 
at Lonoke, all within 20 miles of Little Rock, makes 
Little Rock most prominent as a military post. 















R ORIGINAL CONTRACT, SEPTEMBER 5, 1917 



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YESTERDAY 




WHEN God owned the lighting plant of the 
primitive world there was neither the friction 
of competition nor any bills to pay. Yet the system 
was not without its faults, for while the moon bright- 
ened the world at times with its soft and restful illu- 
mination, at other times the face of the earth was 
dark as the proverbial stack of black cats, and no 
amount of such protests as the moderns call "kicking," 
ever moved the owner of the plant to turn on the 
light. 

The earliest out-door lighting came from the use 
of pine torches, carried by the early settler to light 
his way over the stepping stones in creeks, over foot 
logs crossing ravines, and to keep prowling wolves 
and panthers at safe distance. 

Indoor light was supplied by candles and the art 
of candle making was a part of every woman's edu- 
cation. As a marvelous improvement over the can- 
dle came the first litde glass hand lamp. Arkansas 
grandmothers looked askance at the innovation in 
lighting and handled the strange new apparatus with 
delicate fingers lest, because of a jolt, it should blow 
itself out its tall glass chimney to their mortal injury. 
That there should ever be anything more wonderful 
in the way of lighting up the dark world than torches, 
lanterns and lamps, the pioneer did not dream. 



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and TODAY 




Copyrighted by C. L. Stonk 



MAZDA LIGHT 



WHEN Emerson advised those who contemplate 
getting somewhere in Hfe to hitch their wagon 
to a star he did not mean the same thing a man means 
these days when he says "Hitch your trolley to the 
current." And yet, from the meadows of space 
where the stars roam, that mysterious energy which 
enters into the life of all things, has been turned by 
the genius of man's skill into power to turn the wheels 
of industry and move vehicles of transportation. 

The mule cars that the younger generation in Little 
Rock never saw, were supplanted by the splendid 
electric system of the Little Rock Street Railway and 
Electric Company which has been such a large factor 
in developing the city. This company also brought 
a system of lighting which has driven darkness from 
the most remote corners of the city. 

The illustration above shows the Arkansas Capitol 
at Little Rock flood lighted by thirty-one 500-Watt 
Edison Mazda flood lighting lamps in form L-1, G-E 
projectors. The eff'ect of this flood of light shining 
over the white walls of the magnificent building 
which stands on an eminence above everything around 
it, is one never to be forgotten. The work was car- 
ried out under direction of Superintendent Grififith of 
the Little Rock offlce. Mr. D. H. Cantrell (miniature 
below) is president of the company at Little Rock. 




YESTERDAY 




FOR a number of years after the huts of the first 
settlers in the infant town of Little Rock sent the 
smoke from their stone and stick chimneys up through 
the trees on the south side of the river, the land reach- 
ing back from the north side remained an unbroken 
forest. The Indian yet roamed the woods and the 
hunter from Little Rock found deer, bear, turkey and 
other game in such abundance there was never lack 
of food on the family board. The river was crossed 
in small boats and there are stories told of hunters 
getting lost in storms, for there were no bright lights 
then to lead them through the darkness. The first 
homes in what is now North Little Rock, were like 
those of the capital city, crude, and far between. 
The picture shows a village street in the period when 
log houses were making way for those of boards. 



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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 



FROM the time when the best building in the city 
was a weather-beaten house, standing near the 
village branch where the cows gathered to rest in the 
shade, to the time of the period of development sug- 
gested by the above picture, takes a long count of years. 

The above illustration shows the Administration 
Building of North Litde Rock, a public building 
second to none in its equipment for municipal service 
or its beauty of construction and finish. Among its 
many offices is that of Mayor D. M, Pixley, who will 
be long remembered as chief executive of his home 
city during one of its most progressive eras. Mayor 
Pixley's policy has been a popular and progressive 
one. Multiplied miles of fine pavement have been 
built leading from the city to Fort Roots, Camp Pike 
and other suburban places of interest. School houses 
have been built, streets have been lighted and the 
interests of the city in every way been developed. 

North Little Rock joins Little Rock by four bridges 
and a constant stream of traffic of every kind binds 
the two cities into one industrial community. 

The familiar face of North Little Rock's popular 
young mayor is presented in the miniature below. 




YESTERDAY 




LAWYERS OF HISTORY 



NO State in the Union can boast a more brilliant 
list of statesmen than can Arkansas, and most 
of these distinguished citizens have belonged to the 
legal profession. Among the able lawyers who have 
made names for themselves that will live as long as 
the history of Arkansas is told, are Augustus Hill 
Garland, Judge U. M. Rose and James K. Jones, 

After young Garland's first struggles as a lawyer he 
rose rapidly until he was made Governor of Arkansas. 
From this position he went to that of United States 
Senator. During the Cleveland administration he 
was made Attorney General of President Cleveland's 
cabinet. 

Judge U. M. Rose, one of ablest lawyers of his or 
any age, never allowed himself to run for political 
ofifice. He was, however, president of the Ameri- 
can Bar Association and was appointed by President 
Roosevelt to represent the United States at the Hague 
Peace Conference. 

Senator James K. Jones, as congressman and sena- 
tor, represented his state from 1881 to 1903. His 
death was a distinct loss to the national Democratic 
party. The above picture shows the old home and 
law ofSce of Senator Jones. 



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THE successful public man of today, like the illus- 
trious citizen of yesterday, climbs to prominence 
by his own effort and ability. Among the younger 
generation rapidly coming into a high place is Hon. 
M, E. Dunaway, whose late successes in criminal cases 
of wide importance and whose candidacy for Congress 
have brought him into much prominence. 

Mr. Dunaway (see miniature) was born of fine old 
family stock on a Faulkner County farm, 36 years ago. 
He was educated in the public schools of Conway and 
at Hendrix College, from which he graduated in 1903, 
after which he went to Yale, where he took his degree. 

Mr. Dunaway's public career was begun as a teach- 
er of English in the Little Rock High School. He 
represented Pulaski County in the legislature of 1909. 
In 1913 he was elected prosecuting attorney in the 
Sixth Judicial District, by a thousand votes, over a 
strong opponent. 

Mr. Dunaway is not only prominent in legal circles 
but as a member of the Authors and Composers 
Society of Arkansas he finds time for literary work, 
and as a lecturer and orator he has been heard in six 
states. The above picture shows Mr. Dunaway's 
beautiful new home. 




YESTERDAY 




UNDER its superficial diflferences, human nature 
remains the same in fundamental characteristics, 
that it has been since the human animal passed the 
faint line that divides the lower order from the higher, 
and the same passions and purposes that dominated 
the actions of the cave dwellers, dominated the actions 
of the pioneer, and dominate so-called civilized man 
today. 

For this reason, in the days when Little Rock was 
young, men found time to stop on the main corner 
to exchange opinions, make prophesies and see the 
passing show, wether it were a hunter with his game, 
a new stage coach, or as today, a woman. Indians 
were plentiful in those days. At one time seven thous- 
and Choctows and Cherokees passed through the 
village on their way to their new home west. "Wild 
Cat" and "Hispatka," two warring Seminoles, also 
passed through Little Rock, creating some excitement. 

Past history tells us that there were "flush times" 
in early Little Rock, when several new buildings went 
up in a season. One such time saw the erection of 
the famous old Anthony House. Hard times also 
came and the year the California gold fever ran high, 
a number of Little Rock families made the journey 
to the far west, overland, in wagons built water-tight 
so they could be used enroute for boats. 

The above picture shows an old corner on Mark- 
ham Street in the period following that of log houses. 
It was for many years a building of much local pride. 



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and TODAY 




THE NEW CORNER 



FAR back in the kindergarten age of the human 
race, the child peoples, having discovered the two 
great forces of Nature, called the up-building forces 
good, or God, as the word has come to the people 
of today, and the destructive forces evil spirits, today 
called devil. Throughout the long ages the conflict 
has continued between these forces until civilization 
stands as the result of one and international warfare 
as the culminating effort of the other. 

In modern industrial and business life the great 
forces of construction are seen at work and the brain 
power behind the material development thus finds 
its expression. Lined up with the constructive forces 
of Arkansas are the officials, and their aides, of the 
well known wholesale firm, Doyle-Kidd Dry Goods 
Company of Little Rock, the central offices of which 
are shown above. Mr. B. P. Kidd (miniature below) 
formerly president of the Rotary Club, is identified 
with interests tending toward the upbuilding of his 
community, too numerous to mention. 




YESTERDAY 




IN the illustration above, which is a reproduction 
from the photograph of a clay model made by an 
Arkansas artist, the Indian artist is shown smoothing 
a bit of such pottery as has since been found in Ark- 
ansas mounds in great quantities. 

Following the streams and creeks much of the time, 
the mounds, which were the burying places of both 
Cherokees and Choctaws, are found, and in them 
water bottles, jars for holding corn, flat bowls for 
parching corn and small, flat plates, sometimes yet 
dimly red with the war paint of the warring chief, 
and the dull, shallow pottery pieces that were made 
to cover his face when he was stretched in his last 
rest under some family or tribal burying mound. 
The Indian pottery found in Arkansas differs much 
in quality, due to the kind of clay and ground shells 
that compose it, and the time of baking the crude 
ware. Some very fine specimens have been unearthed. 



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WHEN the natural forces that made Arkansas a 
great depository for raw material of a thousand 
kinds, stored it up, they provided for future works 
of art as well as of general utility and service. 

The several extensive deposits of Kaolin of superior 
quality found in Arkansas provide wonderful clay for 
an endless variety and supply of fine art ware. One 
of the largest and finest deposits of Kaolin is that of 
the Niloak Pottery Company, of Benton, Arkansas. 
The art pottery sent out by this company is widely 
celebrated for its beauty of coloring, the natural clay 
showing in cream, buff, brown, red, azure and deep 
blue and many greys. The fantasy of design is not 
less pleasing. No two pieces are ever alike and the 
suggestion they make to the imagination varies as 
widely as do smoothly flowing sea-rivers and scarfs 
of flyingclouds. President C. D. Hyten (see miniature) 
of the Niloak plant, has developed the industry and 
is himself the master potter of the art shop. 




YESTERDAY 




THE SMALL BEGINNING 



ONE of the most interesting studies in the growth 
of live things is a study of the development of 
something large and strong from something small 
and weak. Growth does not happen; all growth is 
according to law, and whether the thing completed be 
a man or a tree, a symphony or a steel structure, a 
star or a system of philosophy, its humble beginning 
is always of interest to one who would know the 
method of creative force. 

Little Rock has seen the growth of many things. 
When the first specimen of coal was brought to the 
capital city from Spadra many years ago and an actual 
demonstration of its wonderful heating qualities was 
shown, people wondered at the mystery of it. At a 
later time the first telephone in town created excite- 
ment. The story that people in one house with doors 
and windows all shut could talk to those in another 
house was pronounced "fishy" and the first convencing 
test was an event of much importance. 

It is told that the founder of one of Little Rock's 
large hardware companies peddled tin cups and rat 
traps long ago and that the man who put in the foun- 
dation for one of the great wholesale groceries once 
walked the village street with the entire contents of 
his bake shop in the basket on his arm. 

The picture above shows the corner store beginning, 
at a later period, of a business which has since grown 
great. 



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A MAN SIZED PLANT 

LOOKING out his window, a visitor approaching 
one of the railroad bridges that lead from North 
Litde Rock to the metropolis on the south side of the 
Arkansas River, will see on the one side a wide ex- 
panse of tracks beyond which are round-houses and 
like evidences of industrial activity, while on the ottier 
side the smokestacks of cottonseed oil mills and 
the towering outlines of grain elevators can be 
seen. Among these latter plants is the "Hayes 
Grain and Commission Co.," the parent plant of the 
nine others which have grown out of the business 
whose small beginning is described on the opposite 
page. 

The several concerns under the one management 
are the Hayes Grain and Commission Company, with 
headquarters in North Little Rock. A growing 
wholesale business under the name Hayes Grain Co., 
has headquarters at Fort Smith. In Oklahoma, which 
is a buying office, the firm name is the Hayes Grain 
Co. The firm name at Stuttgart, Ark., is the Ark- 
ansas Grain Co. Local plants are the Hayes-Thomas 
Grain Co., Argenta Grain Co., Farmer's Grain Co., 
Spot Cash Feed Co. and the Argenta Cash Store. 

Mr. Caughey Hayes (see miniature), president of 
this business, has from a small beginning developed 
a large success. One of the busiest men in Little 
Rock he yet finds time to do an immense amount of 
social service work, thus exemplifying the old saying 
that he who works most, works best. 




YESTERDAY 




Just Received per S. B. Ben Coursih. 

4 BARRELS Viiielln, Whiskey; 
4 Ir.irrils Teiuie-isee While \\hit.key ; ^ 

1 keg Leuiou Syrup ; 
',; barrels Old M"onoii;iiibel:\ Rye Whiskey ; 
'2 " Bouibou Whihkey ; 
10 half -bai-icls ; 
1 ban-el Lard Oil ; 
a boxes uatural Twist Tobacco ; 
31 biu-rels extra Flour ; 
5 sacks Coflcc ; 
1 box Pepper ; 
G boxes Claret VCme \ 
5 " Champagne ; 
'.' " isiuglttbd i 
I J giosa Playing Cards ; 
li dozeu Bar Tumblers ; 
1 lioxcs Worcester Saace ; 
1 ho<?sbead Prime Sugar ; 
I'l (K>z. .-crubbiug Brasher ; 
10 urow ilalches ; 
•1 iiarrets Mola-'Sfs ', 
Foy suit' by W, C SCRUGGS & BBO. 

lUlli- liQi-k,\u^\t9\, 23. 1860, 

WOOD cnURNP- 
1 uiui ■-' (Jalloa U;ui'IIe Kc.i,'s ; 
5 and 10 Gnliou Iron Bouijd Kegn ; 
Well Buckets; 
Buckets and Tubs ; 
Bread Ti'a.V< and Bowls ; 
Brooms, a.sfiortyd ? 
Wanh Boards , 
KoUing Pitfe : 
Market Baskets; 
S'lgar B'jxes ; 
Clothes' Baskets; 
A Bushel Mciisiirea; 
Perk and J-Peck Measures ; 
Palm Soap No. 1 ; 
Stiir Candlp=« ; 
Telegraph Matches ; 
Pearl Starch ; 
(A>tton Yam ; 
Colored Cai7>et Warp ; 
^^^lite Carpet Wan) ; 
Candle Wk^k and Tvrlne ; 
Coal Oil ; 
Cotton Rnpe ; 
Manilla Rope ; _. 
]k:d Cords assorted ; 
Fftic Chcwiny Tobacco; 
Ciirars and Snaf! ; 
And manv otlier jurticUs for sale by 



STEAMBOAT DAY SUPPLIES 

The above advertisement appeared in the Arkansas Gazette 
over half a century ago. 



and TODAY 




NONE of the ancient landmarks of Little Rock 
have undergone a greater change than the river 
front where the flat boats used to steam up and un- 
load their cargoes. All this river front is today lined 
with brick walls between which and the river, railroads 
thread their way. Most of these river front buildings 
are occupied by wholesale dealers in food supplies. 
One of the leading dealers in groceries, fruits and 
produce, is the Cooper-Dickinson Grocery Company, 
a firm which in twelve years, owing to the unusual 
business ability of its managers, has grown from an 
infant industry to one of the largest of its kind in the 
state. Mr. J. B. Dickinson (miniature below), Sec- 
retary-Treasurer of the company, is doing a work 
second to that of no man in Arkansas in rendering 
his country aid at this time. After a conference with 
Mr. Hoover, Mr. Dickinson decided to give, with- 
out cost of any kind, six weeks of service to the Food 
Administration work. Mr. Dickinson is president of 
the local Red Cross organization and is also a mem- 
ber of the National War Work Council. The cut 
above shows several of the company's trucks loading 
up to distribute food-stuff" to the city. 




YESTERDAY 




OLD BURIAL CUSTOMS 



ALMOST without exception the primitive people 
of every age and race have had some kind of a 
crude beHef in the immortality of the soul, many of 
them, like the ancient Egyptians, believeing that the 
body should be preserved for the return of the soul. 
The original Indians of Arkansas were not an ex- 
ception. An account of the habits of the early Ark- 
ansas Indians, made in 1721 by a French priest, tells 
of some interesting burial customs. One burying 
place resembled a forest of poles. The bodies of the 
dead were out on top, safe from the reach of wild 
beasts, and both men and women made great lamen- 
tations nearby. Another custom was to keep fires 
burning near burying places to warm the dead. At 
a later time the Cherokees, Choctaws and Osages 
showed their belief in the return of the spirit to the 
body by placing parched corn, water botdes and 
smoking pipes in their graves, since attributed to some 
mysterious mound builders. 

The illustration shows a mother watching the body 
of a dead child, which yet swings in its cradle. 



nd TODAY 




THE embalming art of the ancient Egyptian, which 
preserved the mummied remains of the dead for 
three thousand years, may never be re-discovered. 
Modern embalming knowledge is sufficient, however, 
to preserve the human body many years, which, en- 
cased in the solid copper caskets of today, remains 
in a state of preservation indefinitely. 

In every up-to-date city of today, there are one or 
more establishments which care for the dead in the 
lattest approved manner and with scientific skill. 
One of the best known establishments of this kind in 
Arkansas is the Ruebel Undertaking and Ambulance 
Service Company, the officers of which, as shown in 
miniatures below, are, P. H. Ruebel, President; R. F. 
Drummond, Vice President and Alfred Lymer, Sec. 

This company was incorporated in 1901. It has 
grown from a small beginning until today it has the 
ambulance service of the Rock Island Railway, cares 
for the dead of the Iron Mountain Railway, and has 
secured the contract for its services at Camp Pike. 
The rolling stock of the company consists of two auto 
ambulances, three large touring cars, an auto casket 
wagon and one gray and one black hearse. 




YESTERDAY 




NO sight that ever greeted the eyes of the early 
traveler was more welcome than that of the 
tavern or hostelry that suddenly came into view 
around some curve in the road, or grew from a dark 
speck down a long road to a log walled house. In 
those days, after a long jog in a stage, over a rough 
road, the road house was a haven of rest. Nor was 
this all. In those days no pestiferous prohibitionist 
as yet encumbered the earth, and no bone dry angel 
had cast the shadow of its Saharah like wings over 
the wilderness where in the taverns of the day bumper 
followed bumper, stories such as gentlemen delight 
in were told and if times grew otherwise too dull and 
dead, a fight could be stirred up on short notice. 

One of the best known old road houses in Arkansas 
and one which stood after many others had fallen 
into decay, is shown above. For years it was a land- 
mark at the mouth of the North Fork in the Bates- 
ville district. Many a pot of greens and plate of corn- 
bread disappeared from the long pine table as the 
traveling men of that day gathered about it and many 
a story was told by the crackling fires in the old fire 
places. Going from place to place with his early day 
wares and fund of good humor, the pioneer traveling 
man did valuable service, bringing community inter- 
ests together and paving the way for the development 
which was to follow. 



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and TODAY 




THE advance guard of civilization lias always been 
the trader, and his latter-day successor is the com- 
mercial traveler, and one of the livest organizations 
of traveling men to be found anywhere is the "Ark- 
ansaw Travelers," a body of men that has done much 
to build up the commercial and social life of the state. 

The trio whose miniatures appear below, George 
Turner; H. S. Spivey and W. N. Brandon, are char- 
ter members of the "ArkansawTravelers." Mr. Turner 
is known throughout Arkansas, and beyond its bor- 
ders, as a prince of a booster. No advertising special- 
ist ever did more boosting than he does for the love 
of old Arkansas and his faith in her future. 

Mr. Spivey, ex-president of the "Arkansaw Travel- 
ers," is another able optimist it is good to know. To 
him the organization is indebted for its splendid in- 
surance department known as the Death Benefit Fund. 

Mr. Brandon is not only an honored member of 
the "Travelers," but is doing much patriotic work. 
At present his duties as secretary of the Eastern 
Division Exemption Board demand his entire time. 

The hotel in the accompanying picture is "Ark- 
ansaw Travelers' " headquarters. 




YESTERDAY 



THE vast quantities of coal, the beautiful marbles 
in greys and pinks and black and white and red, 
and the varied and extensive mineral deposits found 
in Arkansas, tell of unmeasured cycles of time during 
which volcanic eruptions, erosions and long ages of 
glacial action wrought mighty changes in the ele- 
mental forms of the earth's surface. But not alone 
in the earth are treasures of long making hidden in 
Arkansas. The waters of many of her rivers hide 
fortunes in the shape of pearls, for it is well known 
that among fresh water pearls none are superior to 
those found in Arkansas. 

The first pearls found in Black and Cache Rivers 
about twenty years ago, were sold at prices ranging 
from one dollar to one hundred. These same pearls 
would be worth today from one hundred to five 
thousand dollars. In the early days of pearl fishing, 
hunters waded the streams in search of prize-bearing 
mussel shells. Since then the industry has grown to 
big proportions. Near the pearl-bearing streams are 
many factories for making button molds, while over 
75,000 tons of shells are shipped annually to the vari- 
ous markets of the world. 

Nearby other rivers in Arkansas, great sources of 
wealth are found, as in the inexhaustible material for 
cement making found in the famous white cliffs of 
Little River County. 

The above picture shows raw material being taken 
from a vast deposit of bauxite. 



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BAUXITE is the raw material from which the 
finished product, aluminum, is largely made. 
In the form of clay it is taken from the earth (see 
picture on opposite page). 

In addition to her long list of largest natural re- 
sources, Arkansas has the largest bauxite fields in 
America. The American Bauxite Plant, a portion 
of which is shown in the above picture, is located at 
Bauxite, Arkansas, and is ably superintended by Gen. 
J. R. Gibbons (see miniature), one of the state's most 
progressive and patriotic citizens. 

As Major General, and at this time commanding 
officer of the Omar Weaver Camp, U. C. V., Gen- 
eral Gibbons has done this organization able service. 
At present he is doing loyalty service for his country 
through the Council of Defense of Arkansas, as Chair- 
man of the Committee on Protection and Home 
Guard. In addition to his many and varied public 
activities and patriotic work, General Gibbons finds 
time to write an occasional magazine article. 

The American Bauxite Plant is one of the largest 
and most interesting of the big industries of Arkansas, 
and visitors are always welcomed with the old-time 
Southern cordiality, which is not yet a lost art with 
the manager of the plant. 




YESTERDAY 




AFTER untold thousands of years, the discovery 
by the man-animal that metal could be fashion- 
ed into weapons in place of flint and rock, marked 
a new era in the progress of the human race, which 
by this discovery, passed from the stone to the iron 
age. The development of the race during the iron 
age was not so slow as during the stone age, and at 
the dawn of civilization a number of weapons and 
tools were in use. 

The tools and machinery of the pioneers, so simple 
in comparison with those of today, were many and 
wonderful compared with what had preceeded them. 
To expedite labor the pioneer invented many devices. 

A story is told of a young farmer who met a sad 
fate back in the days when Arkansas was yet the home 
of many wild animals. In Saline County, in those 
early days, salt was obtained from the water and salt 
licks were provided for the cattle by means of pumps. 
The pumping apparatus was operated by a mule 
hitched to a shaft. The young farmer had gone out 
at night to look after his improvised plant, when a 
hungry panther sprang on his mule, tearing his flesh 
badly. Before the young man could reach his gun, 
the panther leaped upon him, striking him on the 
head. The mule died before morning. The man 
lived three months. 



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and TODAY 




IN the days of universal human slavery, the slave 
was in fact, as he was called in Rome, an "articu- 
lated implement." It was not until slavery began to 
be abolished that human intelligence was quickened by 
necessity, into the discovery of such machinery as 
would do the work formerly done by man. With 
the use of machinery, even though crude at first, civil- 
ization took long strides. 

The soil and climate of Arkansas are only waiting 
a more general use of modern machinery, to bring 
forth astonishing results. Corn, cotton, oats, cow- 
peas, sugar cane, sweet and irish potatoes, and all 
manner of fruits and vegetables make prolific growth. 
The famous rice belt produces 5,000,000 bushels of 
fine rice annualy. The present year's corn crop is 
estimated at $90,045,000; wheat, $6,451,000, and oats, 
$6,283,200. This yield is but the beginning of the 
harvest that will increase as modern machinery sup- 
plants the old, and the wonderful drained lands which 
produce two and three crops per year, are cultivated. 

One of the leading concerns in Arkansas distribut- 
ing modern machinery, is the Southwestern Supply 
Co., of Little Rock, of which Mr. Joseph Lyons (see 
miniature) is president, and Mr. Milton Loeb, secre- 
tary. Every piece of machinery sent out by this firm 
becomes a potential factor in the development of the 
state, and men thus engaged are as certainly benefactors 
to society as are preachers of ethics or teachers of art. 




YESTERDAY 



IT 



HAS COME! 

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. H. HIDE, OPP. STATE 

\'Vill Tell YoLi All About Ii, 
A FORTY-YEAR-OLD AD 



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THE latter-day writer of smart advertising who 
thinks the art was born with the present genera- 
tion, would do well to study the above clever ad de- 
sign which appeared in the Arkansas Democrat over 
forty years ago. Successful advertising, from the time 
savage and uncouth man bartered his surplus bear 
hides and war clubs for a wife or two, until the start- 
ling announcements and lurid display of the present- 
day circus, has depended on publicity. Whether the 
publicity be that of a warped and slow moving slave, 
a glaring bill board or a metropolitan newspaper, the 
better the publicity the more successful the advertising. 
The Arkansas Democrat, for two score years the lead- 
ing afternoon daily of its section of country, has been 
indispensible to Arkansas, and its qualifications as 
an advertising medium seem, like rare wine, to im- 
prove with age. 



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and TODAY 




"HORTENSE" 



WHEN John Gutenberg invented the movable 
type printing press, destined to enable the 
human race to educate themselves, he could not fore- 
see the perfection his simple invention would attain. 
And yet, the same system of specialization that has 
developed from a single cell, that most complex liv- 
ing organism known as man, has developed the 
modern printing press. 

The above drawing was made from a Goss sex- 
tuple printing press, the largest in Arkansas, having a 
capacity of 60,000 twelve-page papers per hour. This 
press was recently installed in the commodious new 
Main Street home of the Arkansas Democrat, a news- 
paper plant where every appliance known to the 
newspaper world for facilitating the rapid and pains- 
taking production of a great afternoon daily is to 
be found. 

This leading afternoon daily of Arkansas was estab- 
lished about 46 years ago. Under its present man- 
agement it has made a wonderful growth and the 
nine trains that leave Little Rock daily after the pub- 
lication of the Democrat, take it to all towns within 
a radius of 120 miles, the day of publication. 

Mr. Elmer Clarke, owner and publisher of the 
Democrat, is shown to the left below; Mr. K. A. 
Engel, business manager, to the right. The big press 
"Hortense" is named for Mr. Clarke's daughter. 




YESTERDAY 




THE historic building shown in the above picture, 
known as the Garrison, was a portion of old Fort 
Smith which survived wreckage until after the war 
between the states. During the civil war it was used 
as surgeons' headquarters, and many thrilling inci- 
dents happened during the days of its existence. One 
of the exciting times during its latter days was during 
the uprising of the Pin Indians, when they attacked 
the fort. Only surgeons were left at the Garrison to 
care for the sick and wounded and those too old 
to get out, but many women were hurried into the 
fort and taken care of while bullets whizzed over the 
streets of the border town. 

As the little stone building of the past has made 
way for the wonderful modern hospital, so has scien- 
tific research changed the methods of surgery until 
blood-letting and leech-sucking are no more. 

Litde Rock has a number of both private and pub- 
lic hospitals and quite recently a movement was 
launched to build a new $200,000 city hospital. The 
medical department of the University of Arkansas 
with its free clinic, is in Little Rock, and several 
medical men and surgeons of Arkansas have written 
their names high on the scroll of fame. 



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and TODAY 




NO changes come in any established system of 
ethics or practice without pioneers, and the fore- 
runner of an innovation receives more scorn than 
praise from his fellows until the merit of his conten- 
tion becomes established. The great humanitarian 
who first used an anaesthetic was looked upon as a 
charleton and fraud by his fellows, who believed the 
ethics of their profession would be forever violated 
if a patient was held on an operating table by any 
other means than that of man power, brutally applied. 
Owing to the disrepute into which advertising has 
fallen because of its illegal use by medical impostors, 
publicity is not considered ethical by the medical 
profession as a whole. Changing opinion on this 
subject is, however, establishing a revised standard of 
ethics. The pioneer physician in establishing this new 
order in Little Rock is Dr. A. W. Jernigan, who is a 
graduate of one of the best schools in America, and 
a practicing physician of unblemished reputation. 
The constantly increasing use of Dr. Jernigan's pro- 
fessional services is its own efficient endorsement of 
the change he has made. 




YESTERDAY 




SAINT John's College was a Masonic military 
school incorporated at Little Rock in 1850 and 
was for many years one of the finest schools of its 
day. When Brooks ousted Baxter, during the Brooks- 
Baxter war, the latter repaired to St. John's College 
and placed himself under the protection of the com- 
mandant. Major Gray. The students were formed 
into a bodyguard for Governor Baxter and with guns 
in hand moved with greater alacrity than they had 
shown when armed with books, according to the 
historian, Shinn. Governor Baxter was placed 
in a student's room and guarded night and day until 
he moved his headquarters to the old Anthony 
House. During his stay at the college several im- 
portant conferences were held by such men as Judge 
U. M. Rose, Judge Henry Caldwell, Judge Sam W. 
Williams and Judge Compton, who, recognizing that 
a state of revolution existed in Arkansas and civil war 
was imminent, sought to render service. The St. 
John's College was closed by reason of this war in 1874. 
The historic college building was destroyed by fire at 
this time and all records of the school are supposed 
to have been burned. The picture above was repro- 
duced from a drawing printed from a stone plate in 
an Eastern magazine. It was somewhat changed in 
detail in the drawing. 






and TODAY 




WOMAN'S first demand for college education 
was considered by the anti of that day, a certain 
forecast of the utter ruination of the home, should 
such demand ever be granted. But the calm and 
majestic forces of social evolution stop not for the cry 
of any anti. Higher education for women has long 
been here and the home yet survives. 

One of the leading educational institutions in Ark- 
ansas for women, is the Little Rock Conservatory and 
College for Women, the main building of which is 
shown above. This institution, which has an excep- 
tionally fine faculty for doing both Junior College 
and Conservatory work, has at its head the three 
Cline sisters of musical fame, Mrs. Effie Cline Fones, 
Miss Martha Cline and Miss Sarah Yancey Cline (see 
miniatures in order). Mrs. Fones is president of the 
college. Miss Martha Cline is director of the piano 
and pipe organ department and, because of her special 
system, numbers among her pupils many music teach- 
ers and instructors in colleges. Miss Sarah Cline, 
vice-president of the college, has charge of the voice 
department. She is widely known in musical circles 
as director of the Little Rock Music Festival. 





YESTERDAY 




SOME 45,000,000 years ago, more or less, the soil 
and atmosphere that produced the present day 
forests of Arkansas, were vastly different, and in the 
warm ooze and steamy atmosphere of that time, giant 
ferns, tree high, flourished in wonderful profusion. 

The remains of this prolific plant life of the carbon- 
iferous age are found in the shape of coal, unmeasur- 
ed tons of which lie hidden under the soil of Arkan- 
sas, where small portions of it are today being mined. 

Succeeding ages have changed the species and vari- 
eties of vegetation, and after the discovery of fire by 
primitive man, tree wood, where it could be obtain- 
ed, came into universal use as fuel. The discovery 
of coal, and later of its near kin, natural gas, as fuel, 
did not come too soon to render help in their own 
way, in the very necessary conservation of natural 
forests. 

The above picture shows a bit of wood-splitting 
done by Nature, which, using a storm for both split- 
ting and driving, put the large splinter through a tree. 
The growth about the splinter tells that the work has 
been done some years. 



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and TODAY 




Back in the days when witchcraft notions prevailed 
even in the wilds of Arkansas, the suggestion that 
a man might sometime stand at Old Fort Smith and 
talk to a man at Little Rock would have been sufficient 
proof of mental unbalance, and any man giving ut- 
terance to the mad imagination that a whole brass 
band might sometime send its strains from a small box 
in the corner of a small room would have met the 
fate of those said to be possessed of familiar spirits. 
Yet with other wonders of modern science have come 
the telephone and telegraph to link the distant points 
of Arkansas together. And that other marvel of 
scientific skill has come so that in the sitting room of 
the old farm the latest Broadway opera is heard while 
the grinning farmer picks the hay seed from his hair. 
One of the necessities of modern times is natural 
gas as a fuel. When this prize product of nature's 
skill is found far from the haunts of man, it is taken 
to urban places by engineering skill. In the illustra- 
tion above the tireless wizards of force are seen, which 
for the Little Rock Gas and Fuel Company, night 
and day the year around, pump gas from the distant 
Caddo fields to Arkansas. The minature shows Mr. 
Henry M. Dawes the president of this efficient public 
utility organization. 




YESTERDAY 




THE first craft of any description to ply the waters 
of the Arkansas of which accurate information is 
recorded, was a fleet of keel boats and barges used 
by adventurers from New Orleans in their search for 
gold in 1809. These first boats were slow and labor- 
ious in their travels. A rope was attached to the boat. 
One end was carried ashore where a portion of the 
crew towed it while others kept it from grounding by 
the use of long poles. 

The first steamboat that ever ascended as far as 
Little Rock reached the cluster of log houses making 
the village, on March 22, 1822, according to the 
Gazette printed at that time. The name of this boat 
was the "Eagle." She was seventeen days out of 
New Orleans and was on her way to Dwight, up the 
river, a village long since fallen to decay but which 
at one time came near being the capital of the State. 
Among the necessities brought to the setders of 
olden days was various kinds of hardware including 
simple implements for tilling the soil, fire-arms and 
the always necessary ax of the woodsman. The illus- 
tration above is from a drawing made from life during 
the period it pictures. 



and TODAY 








HARDWARE HEADQUARTERS 

ONE of the big and progressive modern times 
business establishments, which dates bacl^ to the 
year 1878, when it was founded by W. W. Dickinson, 
is the Rose-Lyon Hardware Company, of Little Rock. 

The handsome annual catalogue sent out by this 
company shows clearly and accurately the stock of 
tools and implements for farm and plantation that it 
carries, and no better recommendation for the state's 
agricultural development can be found than the con- 
stantly increasing record of goods distributed by this 
company. 

Under its present management the Rose-Lyon 
Hardware Company has made a wonderful growth, 
its president and secretary who are in active charge, 
being especially well trained efftciency men in their 
lines. The ofificers of the company, whose headquar- 
ters is shown above, are: G. H. Lyon (see miniature) , 
president; C. C. Rose, vice-president; Robert C. 
Bossinger, secretary, and Frank Lyon, treasurer. 




YESTERDAY 




ONE of the oldest and most historic buildings in 
Little Rock is located on what for many years 
has been known as Third and Cumberland Streets. 
The exact age of the old place is uncertain, but it is 
supposed to have been built sometime in the early 
twenties. The building was originally a log structure 
built by a German named Jesse Henderliter, from 
which it took its name, who occupied part of it as a 
home and kept a grocery store in the other end. 

Aside from its age, the building possesses historic 
interest because of the fact that the last meeting of the 
territorial legislature was held within its walls in 1835. 
At this time the total population of the Territory of 
Arkansas was something over 40,000. Little Rock's 
census showed a total of over 600 citizens. 

Two years after the last territorial legislature the 
building was again used for state purposes, this time 
being the temporary prison of John Wilson, speaker 
of the House of Representatives, who killed J. J. 
Anthony, a representative from Randolph County, 
in memorable combat which occurred on the floor 
of the House of Reprentatives in the new state house. 

The time stained building is at present surrounded 
by modern business structures. 



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and TODAY 




OFFICE SUPPLY SOURCE 



THE requirments for office work in older days 
were simple. Since the simple has grown into 
the complex, the multiplied volume and detail of 
modern business has created a demand for office 
equipment devised to save time, labor and the ever 
growing strain on man's supply of nerve energy. To 
this end, wonderful inventions have been perfected 
for writing letters, counting money, copying contracts 
and keeping files, while art in making comfortable 
and convenient office furniture has reached a high 
plane. 

One of the largest and most complete stocks of 
office furniture and supplies in the southwest, is found 
at the house of Parkin-Longley. A visit to this ex- 
tensive and throughly up-to-date office supply source 
is not only of interest to the office man, but is of dis- 
tinct educational advantage to anyone interested in the 
achievement of human genius and art. Mr. Harry 
Parkin (see miniature), known as an expert in his 
line, is president and active manager of this import- 
ant business institution. 




YESTERDAY 




IN its total annual output of cotton, Arkansas stands 
among the first in the list of cotton producing 
states, and no state produces a higher quality. The 
value of the present year's cotton crop is estimated 
at $125,000,000. The Little Rock market handled 
200,000 bales, valued at $25,000,000. 

Growing the fleecy staple in Arkansas dates back 
to pioneer days, and as slave labor was introduced 
the cotton producing area was extended, plantations 
of thousands of acres belonging to land owners and 
bringing in great wealth. Like a fading dream, the 
glory of the Old South is fast passing. The romance 
of its chivalry; the grandeur of its aristocracy, and 
the plenty and pleasure of its plantation life are told 
in story only, while the children of faithful old slaves, 
handicapped by the limitations of an inferior race, 
have become a factor in the serious labor problems of 
a new age. The cotton fields remain, however, and 
when the bolls burst in the fall-time, pushing out their 
snowy fulness, negroes, young and old, gather, and 
leisurely making their way down the long furrow as 
their dark fingers pick the overflowing fruitage from 
the crisp, brown shells, they sing. Melancholy and 
sometimes wierd, these songs, yet voice a great hope, 
as expressed in the popular refrain — 

"For my little soul's gwine to rise and shine, 
Shine lak a star in de mornin'." 



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and TODAY 




TT was many years after cotton fibre had been used 
1 in the production of staple cotton goods before 
the commercial value of the so-called waste products 
was recognized. Today, from seed to hull, every por- 
tion of the raw cotton is utilized. Among the new and 
important industries turning out its product "where 
the cotton grows," is the Jop-pa Mattress Co., with 
factory and office headquarters at Little Rock. 

The advertising matter of this concern, which is 
seen in the best magazines, states that Jop-pa Mat- 
tresses are made from the best Arkansas 100 per cent 
pure cotton, especially selected for its live, resilient, 
bouyant quality and so constructed as not to mat or 
lump. Layer upon layer of this specially prepared 
cotton felt, every ounce of which is cleansed of foreign 
substances, results in the best cotton mattress money 
can buy, regardless of price. 

Very much of the rapid and substantial growth of 
this industry which is reaching out into many states, 
is due to the able management of its president, Mr. 
Q. L. Porter, whose miniature is here shown. 




YESTERDAY 




PIONEER FARMING 



THE above picture was printed from a drawing 
made back in the days when red men, on their 
pilgrimages west, sometimes stopped to look with 
wonder at the iron implement drawn by the oxen, 
which turned up the soil. Occasionally, too, an in- 
quisitive bear made his way to the clearing to see the 
strange sight. In those days dynamite as a labor saving 
remover of stumps and rocks, had not been heard of 
nor had such a diabolical agency as a "corner in 
wheat" been dreamed of. 

The great problem for the pioneer to solve was 
how to wrest his daily bread from the soil. That he 
might do this he planted only small tracts of food- 
producing cereals and grain. If he succeeded in 
growing more than needed for his own use, he might 
trade it to some neighbor for some other necessary 
food-stuff or exchange it for labor. The distribution 
of wheat and other food-stuff was direct from 
producer to consumer when the producer did not 
consume his yield. The middle-man considered so 
necessary in the complex distribution of our present 
system of supply, would have been looked on askance 
in early days, and the honest pioneer would have 
questioned his methods of business. 

The pioneer farmer was recognized as the main- 
stay of all social life. The latter-day farmer is not 
less so. 



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n d TODAY 




**T ESS cotton and more wheat" has been a slogan 
-Li by those interested in diversified farming in 
Arkansas. The increasing acreage in wheat shows 
that the sound advice it contains is being put into 
practice. The different soil and climatic conditions 
of Arkansas make it possible for her to feed herself, 
without necessity of calling on the outside world, and 
wheat growing is receiving more attention every year. 
One of the best known flour distributing agencies 
in Little Rock is the C. E. Smith Grain Company, 
distributors of the widely advertised Orris flour, made 
from the soft winter wheat of the famous St. Mary's 
Valley. This flour has won prizes for five years in 
all bread and cake baking contests in Little Rock. 

Mr. C. E. Smith, miniature below, has had an ex- 
perience of thirty years handling flour. He has held 
different positions of honor and preferment in his city, 
and is at present president of the Rotary Club of Little 
Rock. 




YESTERDAY 




THE State of Arkansas is famous the world around 
for her springs. Not only is the famous Hot 
Springs of Arkansas, with its numerous palatial bath 
houses, one of the greatest health resorts in the world, 
but Arkansas has within her bounds the largest spring 
in the world, the wonderful Mammoth Spring, of 
Fulton County, fed from an underground lake, the 
area of which has never been ascertained. 

But no spring was ever of more service than the 
spring under the spring house on the old home 
place. Here in the cold, clear water, milk and but- 
ter were kept. Ice was superfluous, and the haunting 
fear of germs never gave any trouble as the clean, 
cool milk came to the table. 



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and TODAY 




MODERN MILK FARM 



IN grandmother's day the housewife canned her 
own fruit, baked her own bread, knit her own 
stockings and milked her own cow. Today factories 
and machines do the canning and knitting and many 
a city milk consumer never saw a cow. With the 
developement of city life and its mass society has 
come the problem of health, for the deadly germ in 
myriad varieties has been discovered working like a 
multitude of kaisers on mankind. 

Milk has its own peculiar form of germ life and 
since milk is so important a food product, its purity 
is essential and the dairyman whose business com- 
plies with the strenuous legal measures taken to guar- 
antee its output has proven the old law of "the sur- 
vival of the fittest." 

The Terry Dairy Farm, one of whose barns and 
milk houses is shown above, with its tested cows, its 
well screened concrete buildings, its electrical milkers 
and its water and electric light plants is considered a 
model, and the pasteurized milk, cream and favorite 
brand of ice cream that come from it are in increas- 
ing demand not only in Litde Rock, but throughout 
the State. This splendid business has developed 
under the efficient management of Mr. William Terry, 
its president, whose minature is presented below. 




YESTERDAY 




ON yesterday in Arkansas, miles of travel along 
the pleasant country roadways might be taken, 
with no evidence that the fertile fields would ever be 
used to grow anything beside corn and cotton, or the 
rocky hillsides be made to blossom with peach and 
apple orchards. 

But time has wrought great changes and the diver- 
sified farming idea is growing, while the fruit industry 
in Arkansas has already reached a stage of commer- 
cial importance. Elberta peaches grown in Arkan- 
sas challenge competition in any market in the world 
and some of the largest orchards in the world are in 
Arkansas, one at Highland in Pike County having 
three thousand acres of fine trees. The apples of 
Arkansas are equally famous, "Arkansas Blacks" 
having won numerous prizes at World Expositions. 
The strawberry industry in Arkansas is of growing 
importance, while many a barren hillside has been 
changed into a vineyard of commercial value. Black- 
berries and raspberries yield paying returns at a min- 
imum of expense, and huckleberries grow wild. 



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and TODAY 




TO turn a rocky hillside into a flourishing vine- 
yard or orchard, requires the combined effort of 
God and man. One man, who in Arkansas has 
rendered efficient assistance in transforming a wilder- 
ness into a garden, is the late Joseph W. Vestal. 
Mr. Vestal in 1863 opened a small place near Little 
Rock for the sale of nursery stock. In 1880 this busi- 
ness was moved to the north side of the Arkansas 
River, where it has grown until today the many acres 
of gardens and greenhouses that make the place, are 
known far and wide as "Vestal's." 

No business enterprise ever established in Arkansas 
has meant more to the development of the entire 
state than the pioneer enterprise of Vestal. During 
his long and useful life he saw waste places literally 
blossom with the rose and the fruit industry grow 
until one county has 7,000,000 apple trees, yielding 
fruit of nation-wide fame. 

Not only has the fruit and berry harvest come to 
be a great financial asset to the state, but floriculture 
has grown to be a great industry. Vestal grows every- 
thing from violets to lilacs. Vestal's speciality how- 
ever is "Vestal's roses," and Little Rock's title "City 
of Roses," owes much of its right to the title to Vestal 
roses which are grown to grow. 

The miniature below is from a portrait of the 
founder of the Vestal and Son business of today, of 
which Mr. Charles Vestal is president. 




YESTERDAY 




ONE of the first handsome Southern homes built 
in Little Rock was that of the famous poet, 
author and lawyer, Albert Pike. At the time it was 
built, this splendid home was in the outskirts of a 
frontier village and was surrounded by native forests, 
some of which was cleared away to make place for 
gardens of roses, a flower growing in such profusion 
in Little Rock as to give it the title, "City of Roses." 

The name of Albert Pike is written high on the list 
of Arkansas' men of fame. Born of poor parents, 
young Pike obtained with difficulty, some schooling 
at Harvard, after which he made a trip west and 
reached Little Rock, coming down the Arkansas 
River with a birch-bark canoe load of furs and hides. 
After teaching school a time he took editorial charge 
of a newspaper. Here his literary talent found ex- 
pression, his poems gaining publicity as far away as 
Paris. One of his greatest literary works was the 
translation of the Zend Avesta and Rig Veda with 
annotations, in twenty-two large volumes. 

As a soldier, Albert Pike won honors fighting 
Indians. As a lawyer he became judge of the Supreme 
Court of Arkansas. The home he built has changed 
hands several times during its seventy years of history, 
but yet stands in its classic beauty, admired by all who 
pass its wide gateway. 



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and TODAY 



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ALBERT PIKE CONSISTORY 



THE Albert Pike Consistory, named in honor of 
the illustrious Albert Pike, who, as a Freemason, 
became the highest of his order in the world, is the 
headquarters of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 
Freemasonry in the Valley of Little Rock, and is one 
of the handsomest buildings of its kind in America. 
Its stately exterior gives no adequate idea of the beauty 
of its interior, however, and no finer stage scenery is 
to be found than that used by the order in putting on 
its work. It is to the educational method of the drama 
that Scottish Rite Freemasonry owes much of its suc- 
cess as a powerful social and fraternal organization. 

The Camp Guard of the Consistory is composed 
of thirty-second degree Masons and is a well drilled 
company. 

Much of the wonderful development of Scottish 
Rite Freemasonry in the Valley of Litde Rock and 
throughout the Southern Jurisdiction, is due to the 
undring labor of Charles E. Rosenbaum, thirty-third 
degree, whose miniature is shown below. Mr. Rosen- 
baum is Lieutenant Grand Commander of the Su- 
preme Council and Sovereign Grand Inspector Gen- 
eral in Arkansas. 




YESTERDAY 




THE suburban residential districts of no city in 
America surpass, nor do few equal in point of 
beauty, the natural scenery of Pulaski Heights, Little 
Rock. To the south the blue mountains stretch in 
undulating lines. To the north, Big Rock looms up, 
the river washing its feet and taking its shining way 
between its willow-fringed banks. On the near-by 
hills the pines stand always like evergreen sentinels. 

Pulaski Heights is a garden of wild flowers from 
the time the dog-wood spreads its white lace blossoms 
over the spring green of the valleys and the violets 
carpet the roadside, until the near-by hills turn orange 
and scarlet and the golden-rod and aster bow their 
heads beneath the touch of frost. That this beautiful 
place of hills and vales, of pure air and plenteous 
water, would some time become a populous commu- 
nity was a far dream. But there was a man who saw 
the vision and staked both business judgment and fi- 
nancial resources on realizing it. The many miles of 
paved streets and the hundreds of beautiful homes 
with every modern convenience that today make 
Pulaski Heights, are their own substantial evidence 
that dreams come true. 

One of the indispensible factors in the develop- 
ment of the Heights has been the electric street rail- 
way shown above as taking its way through the pines. 



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and TODAY 




A MODEL FIRE STATION 



'"p^HE handsome structure shown in the above illus- 
J- tration stands on a central corner in Pulaski 
Heights, not only as a model fire station, but as sub- 
stantial evidence that the promises made Pulaski 
Heights by Mayor Taylor during the time her consent 
for annexation was being courted, have been kept. 
This fire station is one of several, including the splen- 
did new Central Fire Station, built during the Taylor 
administration and supplied with the equipment that 
has put it on the map as the first Southern city to have 
fire departments with all motor-driven apparatus. 

Mr. L. H. Bradley, one of the most popular busi- 
ness men in Litde Rock (see left minature below), was 
the honored mayor of the Heights when it became a 
part of Little Rock. He is now a member of the City 
Council. 

Mr. H. F. Auten (to the right), known as the 
"Father of Pulaski Heights," is one of the State's 
leading citizens, and has been for twenty years a 
moving spirit in measures tending toward the social 
betterment and material development of the com- 
munity in which he lives. 





THE FARMER FEEDETH ALL 



My lord rides through his palace gate, 
My lady sweeps along in state, 
The sage thinks long on many a thing. 
And the maiden muses on marrying; 
The minstrel harpeth merrily. 
The sailer ploughH the foaming sea. 
The huntsman kills the good red deer, 
And the soldier wars withouten fear. 

But fall to each whate'er befall. 

The Farmer he must feed them all. 



Smith hammered cheerfully the sword, 
Priest preacheth pure and holy word. 
Dame Alice worketh broidery well. 
Clerk Richard tales of love can tell. 
The tap- wife sells her foaming beer, 
Dan Fisher fisheth in the mere. 
And courtiers ruffle; strut and shine, 
While pages bring the Gascon wine; 
But fall to each whate'er befall. 
The Farmer he must feed them all. 



Man builds his castle fair and high, 
Wherever river runneth by, 
Great cities rise in every land. 
Great churches show the builder's hand, 
Great arch«-s, mouments and towers. 
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers; 
Great work is done, be't here and there, 
And well man worketh everywhere: 
But work or rest, whate'er befall, 
The Farmer he must feed them all. 
— C/ias. G. LeIanJ. 



This poem is reproduced from a fifty-year-old publication. To 
date the farmer has been on the same old job. 



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LIKE a thermometer, the number and condition of banks 
in any commonwealth indicates its average of prosperity. 
Over four hundred and fifty bank combine to make the 
Bankers Association of Arkansas. The banks whose an- 
nouncements appear below are representative of their kind, 
whether in village, town or city, and their officials are pro- 
gressive in all that the term means. 



C. C. Kavanautfh, Pretident 

T. W. Mattially, Vice President 

I). B. Renfro, Caihier 

H. W. Anderson, Mtfr. Insurance Dept. 

E. E. Walden. Mfir. Real Estate Dept. 

Central Bank 

U. S. Depository for Postal Savings Funds 
Little Rock, Ark. 

Banking, Insurance, Real Estate 



Como Trust Company 

E. N. Roth, President 
John P. Dick, Cashier 



Hot Spring, Ark, 



Geo. P. Murrelt, President 
O. H. Davis, Vice President 

O. H. Beasley, Cashier 
Linnie Hill, Assistant Cashier 

" Bank of Cabot 

Cabot, Ark. 
Capital SSO.OOO Surplus S4,S00 



W. L. Furlow, President 

D. F. Wilson, Vice President 

N. N. Wood, Cashier 

Directors— W. C. Ribenack, C. S. McCain, 

W. L. Furlow. D. F. Wilson, D. W. Bass, 

C. L. Poole, W. H. Furlow. 

The Bank of Hampton 

Hampton, Ark. 

Capital Stock ilSMO 



Moorhead Wright, President 
C. P. Perrie, Vice President 

E. J. Bodman, Secretary 

Chas. M. Connor, Treasurer 

L. J. Gibson, Trust Officer 

Sam W. Reyburn, Chairman of Board 

E. G. Thompson, Vice President 

Geo. B. Rose, Vice President 

Union Trust Company 

of Little Rock, Ark. 

Surplus 

anil Profits $290,000 Capital $250,000 



W. L. HeminiJway, President 

W. P. Feild. Vice President 

F. J. Schmutz, Secretary and Trust Officer 

S. C. Couch, Assistant Treasurer 

C. B. Maxwell, Assistant Secretary 

Mercantile Trust Co. 

Little Rock. Ark. 
Capital and Surplus $550,000 



Jas. H. McCoIlum, President 

S. R. Ofilesby, Vice President 

P. A. Tharp, Vice President 

Jesse N. Riley, Cashier 

Roy Anderson, Assistant Cashier 

The Hope National Bank 

HOPE, ARK. 
Capital $50,000 Surplus $75,000 



Hugh McCain, President 
V. G. Savajje, Cashier 

Directors— F. M. Rogers. J. P. Fcndley. W. 
J. Massey, E. M. Vaughn. 



Bank of Arkansas City 

Arkansas City, Ark. 

Capitol Stock $50,000 



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